willing to bear the cost of being bad


	willing to bear the cost of being bad

bignosemousie

10-20-2009 12:00 PM

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bignosemousie says:

FTA:

As soon as you incentivise good behaviour by charging bad behaviour, you are legitimising bad behaviour. When it’s ok to do the wrong thing as long as you pay the price, how can doing the right thing be priceless?

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