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Behaving Badly : The New Morality in Politics Sex and Business
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What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous the infamous and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex--and ethically flexible--age. To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders are less and less respectable; in the realm of business cheating lying and stealing are hazily defined; and in daily life rapidly changing technology offers permission to act in ways inconceivable without it. Yet somehow this hasn t quite led to a complete free-for-all--people still draw lines around what is acceptable and what is not. Collinsworth sets out to understand how and why. In her intrepid quest she squares off with a prime minister the editor of London s Financial Times a holocaust survivor a pop star and a former commander of the U.S. Air Force to grapple with the impracticality of applying morals to foreign policy; precisely when morality gets lost in the making of money; what happens to morality without free will; whether immoral women are just those having a better time; why celebrities have become the new moral standard-bearers; and if testosterone is morality s enemy or its hero.
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