<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jstarfish</author><text>We like these fall-from-grace stories but there&amp;#x27;s a subpattern to this that can&amp;#x27;t be articulated so easily. Literal &amp;quot;corruption&amp;quot; comes close.&lt;p&gt;See also: every freedom fighter that launches a coup to overthrow a dictator, then becomes a dictator themselves within a decade. Or cops that get caught stealing child porn from the evidence locker, despite not being pedophiles by any definition.&lt;p&gt;Not all these types start this way, or are inherently hypocrites. Repeat exposure to something tends to rub off. You can&amp;#x27;t rail against the evils of prostitution as the basis of your career without being forced to spend cycles processing what about them is so awful. Thinking about round tits on display, the mechanics of sex, etc. The unthinkable is literally on your mind 24&amp;#x2F;7, which effectively normalizes the behavior and makes it less outrageous over time. It&amp;#x27;s a weird cycle of grooming yourself to accept what you purport to hate.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m an anti-fraud professional. I&amp;#x27;m surrounded by so much of it (seemingly without consequence) that I&amp;#x27;m frequently tempted to break bad myself. I never will, but it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;conscious&amp;quot; decision (as an extremely stubborn Slav) and not because I&amp;#x27;m a saint. Temptation just comes with the territory. It wears you down until you fail and make headlines in the most humiliating way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rqtwteye</author><text>There is this pattern where things are always the opposite of their message:&lt;p&gt;- Dishonesty expert is dishonest&lt;p&gt;- Politicians who constantly talk about freedom want to restrict anything that doesn&amp;#x27;t fit their world view&lt;p&gt;- Militant anti-gay preachers hire call boys&lt;p&gt;- Diversity teams are the least diverse</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/a8c07365-f85d-47a0-98a4-b6f71da697ef</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always wondered if ethics class impart any ethics at all. If you&amp;#x27;re not an ethical person, why would you become one after taking such a class? If you&amp;#x27;re already an ethical person, taking a class in it is pointless.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rqtwteye</author><text>There is this pattern where things are always the opposite of their message:&lt;p&gt;- Dishonesty expert is dishonest&lt;p&gt;- Politicians who constantly talk about freedom want to restrict anything that doesn&amp;#x27;t fit their world view&lt;p&gt;- Militant anti-gay preachers hire call boys&lt;p&gt;- Diversity teams are the least diverse</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/a8c07365-f85d-47a0-98a4-b6f71da697ef</url></story>