March 31, 2018
No More Cheating: Time to Apply the Rules of the Game to Politics
In his brilliant film, La Règle du Jeu, often considered one of the greatest ever made, the director, Jean Renoir, discusses the mores that specify proper behavior. Each clique in the world has its own customs, mores, and language. Breakage of those rules is seen as a moral transgression as well as outrageous cheating.
When should rules be enforced, and who should be punished? Realistically, political and official organizations like human beings lie and cheat, tell white lies, utter what Winston Churchill once called "terminological inexactitudes," in conduct that contradicts generally accepted ethical codes but is not a cause for alarm or condemnation.
This was not the case with the breakage of the rules of the game by the Australian cricket team playing in Cape Town in the third test match with South Africa. Australia was losing and, in an act of desperation, deliberately tampered with the ball to get...(Read Full Article)