<p>I would like to think person A. I can’t remember a single time i’ve cheated on a quiz/test.. just occasionally sharing homework. However, people need to adapt to situations. If 80%+ of people started cheating regularly, you’d only be putting yourself at a disadvantage by not taking person B’s route. I’d rather feel guilty and have a future rather than have my morals completely intact but have limited future prospects.</p>
<p>Person A. Life lesson here, folks: integrity will always pay off in the long run.</p>
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It’s self-preservation, really. Person A could sit and stew about how life is unfair, or he could do something about it. Keep your “morals” but it’s the result, not the means that matter. It’s funny how we automatically perceive Person B for being a manipulative, evil person by nature when maybe all he wanted to do was get out of his life. </p>
<p>Alex</p>
<p>P.S. I don’t cheat to that extent by the way, lol. Just to throw that out there.</p>
<p>GOD IS DEAD! That people would publically admit to admiring someone who cheated to get into college and, even worse, blame the victim for not sacrificing his own integrity really illustrates the death of God. Such a thing would be unconcievable if people believed in divine retribution or karma. But since Person B will most likely not get caught and hurt in this lifetime, why shouldn’t everyone be Person B? If you accept that the Bad will not be punished by God or by fate, then this begs the question; why be moral? In a post death of God society, Nihlism reigns supreme and decency dies. Christian Morality is Dead. Our crisis of conscience is a crisis of identity and faith. GOD IS DEAD! </p>
<p>Only semi-serious. READ NIETZSCHE.</p>
<p>I’m sorry but if you have to lie and cheat to and through college, you’re just going to build up an unsustainable house of cards that’ll eventually collapse.</p>
<p>@ zarathustra:</p>
<p>there was never a god who interfered with us.</p>
<p>I think it’s important to have morals but it’s different being self-righteous about it. Like others have said, people have different ideas of morality. If you don’t want to live like them, don’t, but don’t be bitter if they win.</p>
<p>And likewise, cheaters shouldn’t think non-cheaters are missing out. It’s a choice to keep what you value the most. </p>
<p>Cheers,
Alex</p>
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<p>As if no other society is losing morals? How many people are there in Amsterdam right now living off the government while they don’t work so they can stay home and get high? Sorry if you find that offensive, but the loss of (or rather, a shift in) morals is a worldwide phenomenon.</p>
<p>I’d rather be Person A for the simple reason that I wouldn’t end up with pressure/responsibilities I can’t handle.</p>
<p>A degree from a prestigious university means nothing if you can’t prove that you have the substance. I don’t think B will be able to smooth talk his or her way out of multiple mistakes at work very successfully, because people will eventually get tired of his or her mistakes (cheating more or less means you aren’t as qualified as an A, who worked for his or her degree) and threaten to quit. It’s safer financially to dismiss one B than it is to have an entire team quit.</p>
<p>Now person A may not have the best credentials, but he or she (presumably) knows his or her material. Companies would prefer to retain and promote a person who can successfully cooperate and get stuff done than a hotshot who hasn’t the slightest inkling what’s going on. And if B manages to get himself/herself ‘dismissed’ from enough jobs, he or she may have to learn how to flip burgers or scan UPCs/memorize PLUs.</p>
<p>cheating on a physics test, honestly, i probably wouldn’t mind.
but on somethin that big…is just…idk, self degrading. plus, i wouldn’t have the guts to do it either. i wouldn’t be able to lower myself like that</p>
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<p>Relating your situation to justify cheating is like comparing civil disobedience to petty crimes.</p>
<p>Person B, because if I were Person B I wouldn’t feel guilty in the first place. And there’s virtually no way Person B could be caught in this situation. So it’s a win-win situation. And yes, morality is subjective. Everyone has their own values. It might go against Person B’s values to want something and not try his/her hardest for it, even if it includes doing what Person A would call cheating.</p>
<p>Whereas if I were Person A, all I would have is bitterness and resentment. And I doubt the knowledge of my own “superior” morality would comfort me very much.</p>
<p>LOL! </p>
<p>Everyone here would get a kick out of reading Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Those who picked B might prefer the Sparks Notes.</p>
<p>B, whatever you have to do to succeed but I would only cheat to a certain extent.</p>
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Haha, I actually did go on Sparknotes after that.</p>
<p>Alex</p>
<p>Lol, I’d definitely be person A. I could not live with myself to know I lied and cheated to go somewhere. I figure if the college didn’t like my essays and such enough to let me in, then I wouldn’t have been happy there anyways.</p>
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<p>Haha, I picked “B” and I’m always the rare student in my English classes that actually reads the assigned reading books. But then I’ve always loved literature ^.^</p>
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<p>More like, those two admissions officers that read your file didn’t like your essays and such enough to let you in. And they probably didn’t even go to the college they’re working for anyway- this is especially true for the top colleges, where graduates can’t afford to linger more than one or two years as admissions staff.</p>
<p>Person A, because if my friend did actually take my place at the school, I’d have to have been the least-qualified applicant to have been admitted anyway. I’d rather be the most-qualified rejected applicant than the least-qualified admitted applicant. I’d rather be rejected than spend four years at the bottom of the class.</p>
<p>Basically, I’d hate to go to a school where I’d fail.</p>
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I don’t know, everyone’s assuming Person B is stupid. He could be one of those smart-but-lazy types who would push into gear once he’s actually paying 40K a year for an education.</p>
<p>Alex</p>