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CMV: It is better to lose honestly than to cheat or lie to win

I'm curious to see what people think about this. More and more I've seen people say, "It doesn't matter if it was fair. I/We won, get over it." In sports, politics, and general life, it has become more culturally acceptable in the post-modern world to throw out morality or fairness, as long as you get the result you want. I want to believe that winning the fair way, by the rules, and being honest, is better for society in the long run. If you start excusing cheating to win in one aspect of your life, soon all other aspects will join. Examples: Trading test answers or copying homework, diving in soccer/flopping in basketball, publishing lies about about a political opponent. (Edit: Saving lives, including your own is an acceptable reason. Also, I'm not talking about cheating against oppressive systems or ones rigged so that you can't win) 
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Maybe if you are playing a game where there are no real consequences to losing. In real life, losers get ripped to shreds by predators. Or they starve to death because they can't catch prey. Trading test answers/copying homework isn't the real world. It's just training for the real world, and it's a horrible idea to cheat in practice. The same thing applies to diving/flopping in sports. Losing a random game doesn't matter, but losing out on the experience means you might get killed in real life. 

But when it's a real dog eat dog situation, you should cheat, lie, or do whatever you can to survive. The alternative is death. Kick your opponent in the balls, bite them, run away, play dead, piss yourself. Do whatever underhanded thing you can think of because if you don't, it won't matter anymore.

It's up to you to judge when there's an acceptable loss vs. one where you should go all out to survive. Some political decisions are irrelevant and it's not worth cheating to win. Some political decisions have enormous consequences, and it's worth doing every underhanded thing possible to win because the alternative means you and your family are going to suffer greatly.