Waikato Times letter of the week #56

This is from the 19 March edition.

Standards slipping

If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything – a quote that says it all in today’s advertising conscience driven world.

Why are standards slipping and solicitors so busy with contracts in the modern lifestyle? But not any more – contracts have replaced the norm of individual integrity. Integrity seems to have slipped in the professional world and its contract this and witnessed that. Integrity seems to be an ethic of the past.

I’m beginning to wonder what the future holds for us.

Maybe, just maybe, if we emphasised it in the schools as a way of living there, and that personal ethics stand for something and define the person, they will be setting a standard for the future.

Too much bad publicity of some schools lowers the expectations and ethics start to slip.

KEN WELDON
Matangi 

As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the Waikato Times.