Is cheating really wrong?

Who cheats?

Well, just about anyone, if the stakes are right.

You might say to yourself, I don't cheat, regardless of the stakes.

And then you might remember the time you cheated on, say, a board game. Last week. Or the golf ball you nudged out of it's bad lie. Or the time you really wanted a bagel in the office break room but couldn't come up with the dollar you were supposed to drop in the office can. And then took the bagel anyway. And told yourself you'd pay double the next time. And didn't.

For every clever person who goes to the trouble of creating an incentive scheme, there is an army of people, clever and otherwise, who will inevitably spend even more time trying to beat it.

Cheating may or may not be human nature, but it is certainly a prominent feature in just about every human endeavor

Cheating is a primordial economic act : getting more for less.

So it isn't just the boldface names - inside trading CEOs and pill popping ballplayers and perk abusing politicians - who cheat.

It is the waitress who pockets her tips instead of pooling them. It is the Wal-Mart payroll manager who goes into the computer and shaves his employees hours to make his own performance look better. It is the third grader who, worried about not making it to the fourth grade, copies test answers from the kid sitting next to him.

So, it's basically everyone who cheats, depending on different incentive situations.

So, it's not wrong to cheat, it never was. Just make sure that you don't hurt anyone in the process. Because anything and everything you do that has a possibility of hurting someone else, is always WRONG