# Execupundit.com: Are These the Top 12 Rationalizations for Unethical Behavior?

- URL: https://dynamicaccounting.net/execupundit-com-top-12-rationalizations-unethical-behavior/
- Date: 2017-10-30
- Topics: Off-Topic & Miscellaneous
- Type: link to an external article
- Source: http://www.execupundit.com/2017/10/are-these-top-12-rationalizations-for.html

I always appreciate Michael Wade’s perspective. So when he asks things like:*[Are These the Top 12 Rationalizations for Unethical Behavior?](http://www.execupundit.com/2017/10/are-these-top-12-rationalizations-for.html)*I pay attention. From his post:

1. *I need to do it.*
2. *Everybody does it.*
3. *If I don’t do it then somebody else will.*
4. *It’s legal.*
5. *When in Rome do as the Romans do.*
6. *They owe me.*
7. *I didn’t lie. I just didn’t tell the whole story or the truth.*
8. *They’ll never miss it.*
9. *I deserve it.*
10. *There are people who do a whole lot worse.*
11. *I’m fighting fire with fire.*
12. *I was just following orders.*

*Other contenders?*

*Oh, here’s one that I’ve frequently seen in recent years: “I didn’t have time.”*