Comments on: Inventing Facts to Fit Your Purposes - White Paper Scruples http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2006/11/14/inventing-facts-to-fit-your-purposes-white-paper-scruples/ Everything about writing and marketing white papers Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:34:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Michael Stelzner http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2006/11/14/inventing-facts-to-fit-your-purposes-white-paper-scruples/#comment-937 Michael Stelzner Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:55:53 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2006/11/14/inventing-facts-to-fit-your-purposes-white-paper-scruples/#comment-937 Charles - Amen brother! I could not agree more! - Mike Charles - Amen brother! I could not agree more! - Mike

]]> By: Charles Brown http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2006/11/14/inventing-facts-to-fit-your-purposes-white-paper-scruples/#comment-907 Charles Brown Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:16:01 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2006/11/14/inventing-facts-to-fit-your-purposes-white-paper-scruples/#comment-907 Unfortunately, Dilbert is often a reflection of real life. Satire wouldn't work if there wasn't some basis of truth behind it. That said, unethical behavior has a way of catching up to us. Not always right now, but eventually. Someday, someone will check our facts and then our credibility is gone forever. There's a story of a man who immigrated to the U.S., but before he left home he converted all his wealth into a single diamond. On the ship, he started tossing the diamond up and down, catching it each time. Getting bolder and supremely confident, he progressed to leaning over the rail of the ship to toss his diamond up and down, never once missing the catch. Everyone but him knew what would eventually happen, they all warned him, but he kept on taking this incredible risk with everything he owned. You already know the end of the story, that eventually he missed one time and lost it all. But the lesson is that when we flirt with disaster, it always flirts back. CB Unfortunately, Dilbert is often a reflection of real life. Satire wouldn’t work if there wasn’t some basis of truth behind it.

That said, unethical behavior has a way of catching up to us. Not always right now, but eventually. Someday, someone will check our facts and then our credibility is gone forever.

There’s a story of a man who immigrated to the U.S., but before he left home he converted all his wealth into a single diamond. On the ship, he started tossing the diamond up and down, catching it each time.

Getting bolder and supremely confident, he progressed to leaning over the rail of the ship to toss his diamond up and down, never once missing the catch.

Everyone but him knew what would eventually happen, they all warned him, but he kept on taking this incredible risk with everything he owned.

You already know the end of the story, that eventually he missed one time and lost it all. But the lesson is that when we flirt with disaster, it always flirts back.

CB

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