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> To lose certification forever all you have to do is work on one of those things and get caught.

There, fixed that for you. That small detail is why your attractive idea wouldn't work in real life. How many years it took for the car industry scandal about tampering with emission tests to be revealed? And it only got to ruin the the reputations of the few engineers involved in the forgery.



> There, fixed that for you. That small detail is why your attractive idea wouldn't work in real life. How many years it took for the car industry scandal about tampering with emission tests to be revealed? And it only got to ruin the the reputations of the few engineers involved in the forgery.

The same goes for theft and graft and murder. You don't get punished if you don't get caught. But you could get caught, and you don't know ahead of time whether you will or not.




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