<p>True, but should we allow plagiarism just because it is on a smaller scale? the stakes are smaller? Then where do we draw the line?</p>
<p>Ice: you were assaulting my moral and intellectual charactor without knowing me. Moreover, your statements attacked my logic without pointing out the apparent fallicies, which is very aggravating indeed. However, I agree to end this debate since neither of us will ever concede to the other :) If I had offended you in any way without realizing it, I apologize.</p>
<p>The problem isn't that the plagiarism was committed on a smaller scale. The problem is that the OP went out of his way to investigate his friend's paper for plagiarism--and then turned him in. This was none of his business and should have been left up to the teacher to investigate for plagiarism.</p>
<p>An analogy (and, yes, it involves marijuana again): If you were peeping inside your neighbor's window and saw him or her smoking marijuana, would you call the cops? Would you be doing your neighbor a favor? Would you be more a more ethical person because of it?</p>
<p>Well, using your example minus marijuana:
If you were peeping inside your neighbor's window and saw him or her shot someone, would you call the cops?</p>
<p>lol... let's not start that again...
If you were peeping inside your neighbor's window and saw him or her running a er... brothel in his or her house, would you call the cops?</p>
<p>That's a tough scenario to imagine. Brothels are generally pretty large operations, and a business of that magnitude in a residential area would surely be noticed by the city and be handled accordingly.</p>
<p>Not all the time, where I lived before, a brothel could operate out of a three bedroom apartment. Don't evade the question. :) c'mon, let's say, would you?</p>
<p>If both people are working for the same publication regardless of that publication, they both are responsible for looking for plagergism...the people in charge are counting on its writers to be honest, and to report wrong doing....</p>
<p>it was most definately his business, because it was also his publication...</p>
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<p>It's more like staking out your neighbors place night and day and rummaging through his trash to find a used bong and then once confirming it, calling the DEA.</p>
<p>I envy this ex-friend and ex-roomate of mine that lied to my Cornell friend that she need a paper done for class back in high school....instead it was the extrance writing exam (submitted online) and yea she got in advanced writing and still up to this date she slip by asking her friends to write her papers in college and still get a B. I envy people who are very lucky to know so many people that help them cheat their way up. </p>
<p>How would you like to rate a sentence like this. "I putted it in their." I'm not even making this up. I took a glimpse at her one of her paper when she left it on her desk and it's one of the sentence a paragraph. Fortunately her friends help her re-write the whole thing and polish it like it was a thesis.</p>
<p>Tarhunt the point your missing is that cheating once, making one mistake doesn't necessarily make it a personality trait. You said you wouldn't put a kleptomaniac in a bank, well is a person that stole a pack of gum when they were 11 a kleptomaniac? Should we keep them out of banks? I agree that their deed should be reflected in the admissions process, but just because somebody is caught cheating once shouldn't mean that they are no longer allowed in any educational environment. Have you paused to think how crazy that notion is? It's not an excuse, it's a fair punishment.</p>
<p>you don't even know his friend, so who are you to label him with a word like that? just 'cause he cheated doesn't automatically make him a scumbag. yeah, it was a mistake on his part, but i could also say the poster was a scumbag friend for doing that to HIS friend.</p>
<p>Cheaters are the scum of the earth. If it were up to me, every high school kid caught cheating would have, next to the GPA on his/her transcript, the words "This GPA cannot be trusted because this student is a known cheater." I'd have those words in big RED letters, and I'd have those same words placed on the college transcript that employers see.</p>
<p>I think the OP is a certain poster who decided to post under a new name. I think this is worse than the situation the OP made up. Sounds like the same poster who likes to pose hypothetical events and get answers.Notice th OP never came back. What, is the OP writing a book?</p>