Rosenberg's Rationalization

On the Michigan Chess Forum, someone 'associated with Steve' explains how Steve Rosenberg cheated in order to
save the life of a suicidal child.

Because Steve was worried about the youth in his care, he decided to take a chance and sacrifice his good name (if need be) and use this device to increase his rating. Because ratings increase so slowly, and because of the suicide risk of the kid, he decided that winning a major section would be sufficient to show the kid that hard work pays off, and that perhaps he (the kid) would return to his former habits of hard work and generally being a positive force.

I wish I had as much character as Steve does, he took a big chance just to help out a fellow human being.