Saturday, May 28, 2005
Ethics
In a memorable comic monologue that the late Bill Hicks concocted, he imagined the court scene in L.A., when Officer Coons of the LAPD was acquitted of assault charges relating to Mr. Rodney King. At one point, during the trial, Officer Coons insisted that he was innocent of all charges. Reacting to such an imaginative claim, Mr. Hicks noted that Mr. Coons must have carried in his, umm, family jewels to the court room in a wheelbarrow, as his claim of innocence truly needed a large collection of...jewels. (cd of this bit is available here).
In Delaware, where we are, again, currently in search of another state motto (this seems a process occurring every 5 years), life is fairly calm and quiet.
A recent event may have us calling Officer Coons to borrow his wheelbarrow.
Today was graduation day at the University of Delaware. A proud day for students to receive acknowledgement for four (or more) years of work put toward the attainment of a degree. Now, maybe the work they put in wasn't hard for all, but one would assume it was at least honest work.
One person was there with the graduating class. He was in cap and gown. But he wasn't going to receive his degree. Seems he was caught cheating in a Corporate Ethics quiz.
Seriously.
Cheating in a
Corporate Ethics class.
I did a double-take the first time I read it. Irony isn't the word for this. Comedy would be a better fit.
He lawyered up and claimed himself innocent of cheating. No one else in that class was accused of the same act. Only him.
Now, if you were one of the people sitting there at the ceremony, would you feel just a bit demeaned by the presence of this cheater?
Sure, the University did not give him a degree.
But, the University's lawyer could have been a bit more inventive in getting to a just compromise.
Had the lad rolled in with Officer Coon's wheelbarrow to the ceremony, a point would have been made. And Mr Hicks would have been touched to know that he was remembered.
In a memorable comic monologue that the late Bill Hicks concocted, he imagined the court scene in L.A., when Officer Coons of the LAPD was acquitted of assault charges relating to Mr. Rodney King. At one point, during the trial, Officer Coons insisted that he was innocent of all charges. Reacting to such an imaginative claim, Mr. Hicks noted that Mr. Coons must have carried in his, umm, family jewels to the court room in a wheelbarrow, as his claim of innocence truly needed a large collection of...jewels. (cd of this bit is available here).
In Delaware, where we are, again, currently in search of another state motto (this seems a process occurring every 5 years), life is fairly calm and quiet.
A recent event may have us calling Officer Coons to borrow his wheelbarrow.
Today was graduation day at the University of Delaware. A proud day for students to receive acknowledgement for four (or more) years of work put toward the attainment of a degree. Now, maybe the work they put in wasn't hard for all, but one would assume it was at least honest work.
One person was there with the graduating class. He was in cap and gown. But he wasn't going to receive his degree. Seems he was caught cheating in a Corporate Ethics quiz.
Seriously.
Cheating in a
Corporate Ethics class.
I did a double-take the first time I read it. Irony isn't the word for this. Comedy would be a better fit.
He lawyered up and claimed himself innocent of cheating. No one else in that class was accused of the same act. Only him.
Now, if you were one of the people sitting there at the ceremony, would you feel just a bit demeaned by the presence of this cheater?
Sure, the University did not give him a degree.
But, the University's lawyer could have been a bit more inventive in getting to a just compromise.
Had the lad rolled in with Officer Coon's wheelbarrow to the ceremony, a point would have been made. And Mr Hicks would have been touched to know that he was remembered.
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Poor Bill Hicks: blessed with an ironic demise that surely made him laugh, and one that, with others too, I honor with a commitment to never listen to naysaying nancies, and to smoke to the end of my days.
Bless 'im.
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Bless 'im.
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