As the financial situation becomes tighter for everyone it seems that morality is suffering.
Companies and individuals are looking to protect their income by unethical behaviour - not in a major way, but little things that they hope will go unnoticed.
Special offers that are not really special, and may actually be more expensive (or special offers that are not in stock when you go to the store but were just a ruse to get you to go there).
A Council deciding it will pay housing benefits in arrears instead of in advance.
Charities using telesales people on commission to get donations (but not telling the donors they are doing this).
The cult of respectability, in force until the 1950s, may have been stifling and repressive, but at least the moral climate of society was regulated.
If a leading figure said something was immoral it would stop, without any need for legislative regulation.
Now we have moved to a system (which I will call the Tony Blair philosophy as he practised it so much) - if something is not absolutely forbidden in law it is OK to do it.
A study needs to be done.
Companies and individuals are looking to protect their income by unethical behaviour - not in a major way, but little things that they hope will go unnoticed.
Special offers that are not really special, and may actually be more expensive (or special offers that are not in stock when you go to the store but were just a ruse to get you to go there).
A Council deciding it will pay housing benefits in arrears instead of in advance.
Charities using telesales people on commission to get donations (but not telling the donors they are doing this).
The cult of respectability, in force until the 1950s, may have been stifling and repressive, but at least the moral climate of society was regulated.
If a leading figure said something was immoral it would stop, without any need for legislative regulation.
Now we have moved to a system (which I will call the Tony Blair philosophy as he practised it so much) - if something is not absolutely forbidden in law it is OK to do it.
A study needs to be done.
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