RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Phillip Emeagwali's Fraudulent Activities Have Tainted the LSAT

But isn't one right to expect, or even, presume that societies that claim to
be exceptionally founded on the rule of law will indeed protect its public
from charlatans? Shouldn't one be surprised to discover the naïveté of such
presumption? Shouldn't one then seek to know what the existence of this
phenomenon mean both for the claims to exceptionalism and for our own
perceived tension between the phenomenon of fraud and the rule of law?

Bode

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Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Phillip Emeagwali's Fraudulent
Activities Have Tainted the LSAT

Charlatanism, self-promotion, and self-aggrandizement are common elements in
all human societies. They not right but they exist. To ask why "this society
has allowed this culture to thrive" is to assume that this society is
somehow different, and may be superior to other societies. Philip Emeagwali
is only operating in a culture in which such frauds exist and pre-date him.

Personal choices of how to conduct oneself is just that - Personal. We
Africans and especially Nigerians must stop this implicit and sometimes
explicit habit of blaming Nigeria as a society for the flaws and foibles of
individual Nigerians.

There are no flaws which we routinely ascribe to Nigeria that are not found
in any other society. The scale may be different due to conditions of
scarcity and underdevelopment, but corruption, crime, fraud and even
manipulative ethnicity and sectionalism are not qualitatively different
because of the scale in developing countries.

Individuals should be held responsible for their actions.

Ehiedu Iweriebor

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