“Ethics Dunce” understates the epic cretinism and stunning lack of responsibility on display here. This is a complete ethics alarm malfunction.

Jensen Huang, CEO of the tech giant Nvidia, has resigned under pressure and in disgrace after the company launched an investigation following news reports that Huang not only had an extramarital affair with one of the company’s clients who had been recruited by China’s top spy agency. Then another affair was reported, this one with an Nvidia executive whom he supervised.

Huang is one of the most important business leaders in the United States; Nvidia dominates the market for the chips used to train and run artificial intelligence. His departure caused Nvidia to dive in the stock market.

The arrogance and recklessness of leaders who do this—and so many of them do— constantly amazes me. They have responsibility to employees, families, investors, their families, and the economic health of their country.

I guess they took as gospel the Democratic Party’s rationalization for Bill Clinton’s conduct. Remember? “It’s just sex!” Also: “It’s private personal conduct with no relevance to how well he does his job!” Showing oneself to be unworthy of trust, capable of terrible judgment and unable to resist personal gratification that involves risk and betrayal are absolutely relevant. In fact, they are definitive.

Huang is supposed to be an innovative tech genius, but he couldn’t figure out the complexities of basic professional and personal ethics.