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vlyons

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Tue Mar 12, 2019, 01:45 PM Mar 2019

college admissions scandal

well I'm not surprised that wealthy individuals cheated to get their kids into elite colleges. The kids who got scholarships for sports they had never played -- well that's pretty cheeky hubris. What I'm here to rant about is the moral depravity that has grabbed our country. When did "anything goes" as moral code for life become so wide-spread.

I'm a Buddhist, and the very foundation of Buddhism is a moral code that includes no lying, no cheating, no stealing -- all non-virtuous behaviors that ultimately result in problems and more suffering. People have thrown away their coaching and academic and careers and for what? For greedy love of money. Some of those arrested today may get prison sentences.

I did a google search and the MSMedia sure has stories on the Hollywood parents, who were arrested. But nothing about the corporate and Wall St parents, who were arrested.

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college admissions scandal (Original Post) vlyons Mar 2019 OP
When "winning" became the only thing TheRealNorth Mar 2019 #1
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