In billiards if you touch the cue ball while taking the aim, you will forfeit your chance by announcing that you touched it, even if the touch was so light that no one could notice it. Similar standards of honesty are expected of you in golf.
The rules are clear in cricket. If you hit the ball and a catch is taken cleanly, you are out. So if the umpire has not called a no ball and you can clearly see the catch being taken cleanly, shouldn't you walk?
Let's switch the subject.
You get only one lifetime to achieve something. But if in your country corruption is so high that unless you bribe every small to big official, nothing moves, should you be called a cheat if you also play along and bribe people to get started in your enterprise?
If in cricket the umpires mistakenly declare you 'out' when you are not, which may catastrophically result in your team losing or you being dropped from the team or even ruining your career for ever, should you still walk when the luck has played your way this time due to umpiring error?
I am sure everyone has his or her own opinion on this moral dilemma.
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Yes, you should. Honesty at individual error has no substitute or excuses or justification. It is same as you having to pay bribe some times while you never ever thinking of taking bribe yourself.
ReplyDeleteP.L.Vaishampayan