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Letter: Do we know that there is right, wrong?

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 | 7:04 a.m.

As a society, we have lost our moral compass.

Some college students at Duke, Indiana, Ohio and the Air Force Academy have been caught cheating. Plagiarism by graduate students is becoming more common. And, not long ago at UNLV, dental students falsified their records.

If these academic actions are wrong, why are they wrong?

Who says that claiming someone else's work as your own, falsifying your lab hours, and copying answers from the back of the book is wrong?

And why do we find it necessary to now teach courses on business ethics?

Could it be that there exists a moral compass inside humans so that we know certain behavior is wrong?

If an atheist were cheated by a business owner, would he have a right to complain? Would the business owner have an obligation to rectify the situation? If so, why?

Could it be that we know there is a right and a wrong? Could it be that there are moral absolutes?

Could it be that there really is a God who abhors certain behaviors because they break His laws?

Marsha Norton, Henderson

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