The circumstances that prompted these thoughts are not worth reciting, but the motivation of cheating to win $40, $400 or even $4,000 intrigued me enough that I went out and researched why someone would risk such damage to his or her reputation for seemingly so little reward. Some of the stuff I found seemed to be a bit of psycho-babble, but most was illuminating. And many ideas spurred even more questions.
Are there degrees of cheating? Is it worse to cheat to gain $1 million or is it worse to win a mere pittance through cheating? Is a long-time affair worse cheating than a one-night stand?
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