The Era of Cheating

We are in an era of cheating.  Bartolo Colon just got suspended for 50 games.  I guess the major clue was that a 39 year old fatass overweight dude was having a fantastic year in the pros.

Watching Hard Knocks, it is obvious why these guys cheat.  If you're playing in the show or in the NFL, you are on top of the food chain.  If you aren't, most of these guys are driving Fed Ex delivery vans or coaching high school.  You want to give a guy an incentive to cheat?  Put him in the top 1% where only the top .01% succeed and then the drop off is entrance to the lower middle class.

It's fine to talk about personal responsibility, but when the cheating is systemic (as it is), you also might be smart to look at the incentives and the systems that give rise to it.  A typical conservative position would put the onus on the individual, yet, a conservative understands the evils of communism or fascism and how systems influence the human spirit -- so we might want to look a little closer at these business and sport cultures to understand what is going on and how to prevent this erosion in morality.