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I'm curious what you call it when, say a car company programs their vehicles to notice when they are on an emission test stand and will operate differently to get the best test result possible. Because regulators call it cheating and society as a whole suffers from it.


maybe the regulation or test is not necessary?


Except society as a whole has deemed it necessary for lots of reasons. Even strict libertarians tend to think one of the better roles of government is to regulate negative externalities.


has society also deemed it necessary that all undergrads must take anthropology? I was not aware that this was put to a vote.


Depends. If the hiring group has said, for example, you need an ABET degree to be qualified and ABET has said an anthropology course was part of the required curriculum, then yes.

In other words, groups (society and otherwise) have created standardized curriculums for a reason. You may not agree with their decision, but the reasonable response is to remove yourself from consideration, not to lie in order to get the outcome you want.




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