<<I've seen Codes of Ethics for most of my life. We just had a suggestion for a new code of ethics in my state ... proposed by a team operating under a franchise created in, I believe, 1978. Their past efforts to foster ethical behavior have failed and now they are making a new attempt. The new code was proposed on virtually the same day that someone who worked on the text of a new law to stop "Pay for Play" in our state wrote a memo to one of the political parties explaining how to evade the very law he'd helped draft>>
No matter how hard we try, you cannot create ethics or integrity through rules. It is always the first option people look to even though it should be the last one. All rules do is provide a framework for finding a way around them. We then end up with more rules and more efforts to work around them. It is a never ending cycle and one of the great flaws of our government. We are generally based on principles, not rules and it is the principles that ought to guide us and not someone's anecdotally justified rule.
Too many rules end up causing everyone to try and find a way around some rule and we end up with no one really respecting any rule because they or someone they know has tried to find away around some rule that someone else thought should be imposed on everyone else.
Troy
Those who shoot from the hip usually end up just shooting themselves.
Plan the grub and grub the plan.
Where is the party tonight? Who is bringng the drinks?
