Below is a snip from a post on my blog that I wrote back when I was still working full time (so quite a while ago). The intended audience was not students. It was learning technology professionals. They don't get practical ethics training. There is university ethics training now but it is entirely unsuitable to help somebody work through the issues they will confront. Judgment is needed, not just adherence to rules. So in the post I tried to do a think aloud about the ethical issues. If you read this you will see repeated mention that where to draw the line between productive activity and corruption is very hard to do. It is. Also, in the lead up part there is mention of corruption in a variety of different contexts. In particular a movie called The Insider with Russell Crowe and Al Pacino is mentioned. If you haven't seen it, I recommend doing so both for the entertainment value and for illustrating the underlying issues.
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