<p>I find it very hard to believe some someone has never cheated in school before. Never copied a homework assignment, no a single problem? Never used sparknotes to help you with take home essays? Never tried to get information from friends about a test?</p>
<p>Come on now...</p>
<p>Psh, it's such a little thing. I probably would have done the same thing if I was slow at math.</p>
<p>"Maybe you guys do...I have honestly never cheated. I believe in this little thing called "ethics"."--I think this is more a case of moral codes than ethics. Have you read Kant? I wonder how his categorical imperitive would apply to this...</p>
<p>Sigh....sometimes it seems as though honor has disappeared in some places.</p>
<p>^Are you talking about my post? I didn't mean that cheating is acceptable, quite the contrary...If that's what you took it as..I was just wondering what the more general stance of Kantian ethics would be for a case such as this one.</p>
<p>Smart kid.</p>
<p>Hah, no, reversepsych, not you. Talking about other posters who shrug cheating off like it's not a problem today. Sorry, but I have maybe an overly strong sense of justice. I never do anything resembling cheating, and have disdain for people who do.</p>
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<p>its not cheating until you get caught. ;)
and shutup, dont come here talking about ethics. if having ethics means making a forum debating your friend's morals, then what the hell kind of ethics do you have.</p>
<p>Technically, it is cheating, but don't worry about it now, which I guess you aren't.</p>
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<p>its not cheating until you get caught.
and shutup, dont come here talking about ethics. if having ethics means making a forum debating your friend's morals, then what the hell kind of ethics do you have.
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<p>Yes, the "Better than thou" attitude is quite heartwarming isn't it?</p>
<p>It's technically cheating, but morally I wouldn't say it's cheating. I mean, the only reason he was able to do it was cause he remembered the problem, yes? So it wasn't like he didn't do any work and got the question, he still did the appropriate work without even looking at it again. It's not as if he asked for the answer during the break and then went back and changed it.</p>
<p>Personally I'm guilty of this as well on the SAT, cause the proctor cut me off before I could finish my last sentence, so I went back and added 7-8 words. No biggie.</p>
<p>It's cheating for sure, but I think a lot of kids .. especially smart kids.. will do the going back and changing or filling in answers strategy. There are really many ways to do this without getting caught... Anyway, if he did it for one question and he remembered the answer anyway.. I'd just wave it off, it could have been much worse.</p>
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<p>i agree. /<em>/</em>/</p>
<p>If you took it that way, Armando, I'm sorry, but that wasn't how I meant it and honestly you were being too sensitive. It also kind of seems that you take pleasure in cutting down my posts. Bothered because it strikes a chord with you, maybe?</p>
<p>reversepsych-I'm actually taking Philosophy this year and while I haven't read Kant yet, we're doing a project right now where we have to peer-teach a certain philosopher, so I'll be learning about him soon. I'm doing Hobbes and Hume.</p>
<p>I notice HisGraceFillsMe hasn't been back to claim that s/he's NEVER copied somebody's homework or found asked a friend about a test. Hmmm....</p>
<p>hisgracefillsme-I'm in philosophy this year as well (I took ethics last summer-that's how I know about Kant-we haven't gotten to ethics in our class yet either)..We learned about Hobbes and Hume, but nearly all of my knowledge about them seems to have departed following our midterm last week. (:</p>
<p>I don't think it is but everyone in the place I took the PSAT were going back to other sections when we weren't suppose to. Personally I don't see what's so wrong with it if your done with the current section. It's not like your going to get answers..</p>
<p>We just started our ethics unit, reversepsych. :)</p>
<p>If any of it comes back to you, lemme know ^_^</p>
<p>Even if it was technically cheating, it's not nearly of the magnitude of actually turning back to that section. We're talking sheer technicality here - the instructions are ambiguous; I don't recall ever hearing that you couldn't change your bubbles, only that you couldn't go back to that section of the test booklet. Don't sweat it.</p>
<p>Why do people keep saying it's not a big deal? This test isn't a big deal, but the larger question about whether it's ok to disobey instructions on a test is a big deal.</p>