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Technology and the Decline of Morality

Knowledge at Wharton·@HashtagPLUS·about 1 month ago
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“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit,” says a character in Noel Coward’s play, Blithe Spirit. The decline of morality is on public display more than ever. Technology lets the world see people everywhere behaving badly: Videos of fights in public quickly go viral, folks bicker and bully on social media, and many think nothing of posting nearly naked photos for the world to see. Former media executive and business consultant Eden Collinsworth explores the fluid lines of morality in her book, Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business . She spoke on the Knowledge at Wharton show, which airs on SiriusXM channel 111 .   An edited transcript of the conversation follows. Knowledge at Wharton: What has changed significantly about morality that we’re going down the bad road more often than the good road? Eden Collinsworth: It might be helpful to define the words “morality” and “ethics” because they’re often thought to be one and the same.…

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