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March 9, 2005
Now you can't have any dessert.
I love this story. Harvard, MIT and other schools gave blanket rejections to anyone who used a simple "backdoor" to take a sneak peak at their admission/rejection status, and now those rejected are crying foul. The sense of entitlement is astounding. That these students (or potential students) can split hairs to say that what they did is not "unethical" shows why companies like ENRON do the things they do.
Imagine you go to someone's house and you are told by the owner, "Tomorrow someone will come out here and get you, and you can then come in and have some cake." After the owner goes back inside and locks the door someone else walks up the block and points out that the upstairs window has been left open. "You could go in and have some cake now," this person says. Do you really need to be told that sneaking in the window is wrong? And, if you do it anyway, do you cry "no fair" when you get caught.
Babies.
Posted by sferrell at March 9, 2005 2:57 PM
