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Editing a contributed book is often not an easy process, and chapters are often delayed. One of the authors sent me a couple of emails with the subject heading ‘almost hitman time’ and told me that if he did not make the promised deadline, I had his permission to hire an assassin. I replied that unfortunately institutional budget cuts meant that there were no longer funds available for hiring assassins and that this might also be counter to institutional ethics policies.
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Hersh, M. et al. (2015). A Hitman’s Approach to Ethics: Temptations and Challenges and Book Overview. In: Hersh, M. (eds) Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainability. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6618-4_1
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