I’ve really changed my views on morality and am curious what others think. Do you guys think that cheating on an exam is wrong? Why?
Nope, not biting. It’s wrong and you know it.
Why don’t you tell us why it’s NOT wrong.
Cheating on an exam is wrong, but I do not really care because the cheater will most likely be less successful. Just let them screw up their own life.
Cheating is wrong, no matter how you look at it. I don’t see why someone should be allowed to get a higher grade on a test or quiz than me, while I actually spent the time studying while they didn’t and just made a cheat sheet or look off someone else’s test. I would be “interested” to hear your reasoning, even though I don’t agree…
What if cheating allows them to just get by with a grade much lower than yours?
@ChingMingDing That is not okay. You’re saying that you support dishonesty and discarding academic integrity. Even my 7 year old daughter knows that’s wrong.
@JustOneDad even if they get a lower grade, it still doesn’t make cheating acceptable… It shows a lack of integrity among other things.
So here’s my reasoning. We live in a society governed by rules. Breaking those rules is breaking the standards we have all agreed to live by. But according to studies, a vast majority of students have cheated in some form.
http://www.plagiarism.org/resources/facts-and-stats/
I’m not sure if everyone else had to do this, but at my school we sign an integrity policy where we agree to not cheat or plagiarize. Yet, if a majority of people are cheating, plagiarizing, or doing both, isn’t cheating now considered acceptable? Are those who condemn cheating just pushing the minority’s sense of morality on the majority?
Human behavior is based on incentives, so it makes sense than so many people are cheating. They want a better test grade and they don’t believe they can obtain it through studying. They believe they are unable to succeed within the educational system, so they defy it.
I think the long term consequences of cheating aren’t worth the short-term rewards. People lose out on information, they will eventually be caught, and they are stressed when cheating. But since the majority is doing it, I don’t think cheaters can be viewed as basically immoral. It defies the rules of society, but I think of it as a minor offense. What do you guys think?
Who says the majority of people are cheating, plagiarizing, or doing both??
I think you’re hanging around with the wrong crowd… or you are the wrong crowd.
The link does.
Oh okay, so just because the majority do something means it’s right, huh?
Well, up until recently black and white people were segregated because black people were seen as inferior. Now if the majority of white people today chose to revert back to own slaves, would that be moral?
they are too very different issues, but morality doesn’t change depending on what is more “popular”. By the way, I have ever cheated on an assignment.
You can’t take an intellectual position on this out of context. You need to get a grip on what you personally mean by words like right, wrong, moral, and ethical. The big questions
I see so many grammar mistakes in my post… No one comment on them lol
Wait-- you’re quoting a link from an organization called plagiarism.org – on the subject of plagiarism-- and you’re expecting them to be an unbiased source of information on the subject???
I honestly don’t think you give enough credit to the people of your generation.
I think that if you feel wrong doing something, that thing is immoral.
Don’t get me wrong, cheating is wrong. But people seem to view it as deeply immoral, while I think it’s more casually immoral.
“Immoral” is kind of like “pregnant.” It is or it isn’t.
Yep. You definitely need to take a crash course in Ethics.
I’m confused on your ideologies towards cheating… A lot of people don’t feel bad robbing people, so is it immoral if they feel good while doing it? I understand cheating is a lesser offense, but I’m confused as to why morality is subjective… Right is right and wrong is wrong. Period.
Even if the cheater thinks the act is only slightly immoral, the administration is going to view it very differently, so it’s a bit of a moot point.