<p>No one here is defending what the plagiarizer did...we just don't think it was right for the so called "friend" to intentionally review his friends work to get him in trouble.</p>
<p>Wow, OP.</p>
<p>If i knew you in rl, i would shoot you. Yes, that is a threat.</p>
<p>With that guy's test scores/etc, he obviously worked hard, and now you screwed up his future.</p>
<p>Shame. On. YOU.</p>
<p>If a kid is caught in the act - his/her fault.
If you catch a kid in the act, confront them first, then bust 'em - his/her fault.</p>
<p>But if you go out of your way to catch someone cheating - snitch.
You rat on a friend - snitch.</p>
<p>Friendship means you work it out between eachother. You go behind their back to tell, friendship over, snitch. You tell them you are telling, friendship over, not a snitch.</p>
<p>Keep calling this person your friend - you are a snitch. If this wasn't a friend - the kid is a moron. Yes, I am saying that friendship ranks above strict 'morality'. If the act in question is worse than how much I value that person as a friend - I bust them. If the friendship ranks above the action - sorry bud.</p>
<p>If I screw up tell me. If you screw up, I'll tell you. But I won't bust on you unless I can't fix it myself and it matters that much to me.</p>
<p>I'd have smashed your nose. Period. I don't like cheaters but I hate people who betray the trust of a friendship even more.</p>
<p>@ the poster above me</p>
<p>You seriously need to get your priorities straight. A friend who has plagerized, received a warning, and hasn't repented deserves to be caught. Seriously, the two types of people who doesn't deserve to succeed are liars and cheaters.</p>
<p>^^ yes, i think Gryffon5147 believes he deserves to be caught...but NOT by his BEST friend.</p>
<p>unless this somehow affects you directly, stay out of it. besides, you his friend, and while you may think this will help him out in the end (and it just might), its not your business. he's got to deal with this on his own</p>
<p>The OP is a ****, just inhumane to a ''friend''.</p>
<p>the OP is a rat.......being a rat is way worse than plagiarizing.....i agree with DSC</p>
<p>As an outsider, I don't agree with the comments that the OP is a horrible human being or anything. If the rules state don't cheat, and the OP has warned the friend before, that friend should have known not to cheat, or at least not cheated in front of the friend. Now, I think most people here will agree that the punishment seems very excessive to deny this kid his right (yes I think it's his right) to a decent education. I know for sure I would not have told on my friend, not because I condone cheating, but that I care about my true friends a lot more than I hate cheating. I agree this friend probably is not a very ethical human being, but I'm not sure if it's your place to tell on him. Also, for those people saying that people are bad for punching the OP in the face if it happened to them, I think most people regardless of whether or not they're right would do something similar.</p>
<p>@ the poster above, above, above, above, above, above me...</p>
<p>You seriously need to get your priorities straight. Friendship is considered one of the central human experiences, and has been sanctified in every human culture and by all major religions. </p>
<p>A true friend would not have turned him in after one measly feel good warning but would have worked with him to solve his problem. Sure, a plagiarizer deserves to be caught, but by the betrayal of one's friends? Friendships are the basic fabric of our society, and without this, we have turned for no one but ourselves. </p>
<p>Even though the OP is a troll, I stand by my statement that I would have smashed that little Judas' nose.</p>
<p>So, hypothetically, you see your best friend cheat on something very important...do you confront them and turn them in if they don't repent.</p>
<p>Here is the real question. "If not you, then who? If not now, then when?" Do you think people who go on to commit corporate fraud start there or with smaller, yet still important acts that go unchecked? Perhaps this is more important to me because I am going to work in an area where lies and cover-ups can cost millions of dollars--or lives.</p>
<p>"Character is manifested in the big moments, but it is made in the small ones."</p>
<p>^^^^
Well said.</p>
<p>Just don't be friends with cheaters in the first place.</p>
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<p>And I imagine tattling on a friend and his cheating ways on a school paper is part of the intensive training required for the position?</p>
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<p>^ We'd have a perfect society if everyone was such a good judge of character. </p>
<p>I hate controversial troll threads.</p>
<p>OP-I don't think what you did was wrong. You used your personal ethics. You had already given the person a warning, and they persisted to do it. For some reason, the people on this board feel that anyone who stands up for what they know is right is a "snitch". In your shoes, I probably would have done the same thing. Do not let these morons make you feel bad.</p>
<p>As to the whole "he would have stopped"? Bull. He'd already done it twice. How many times does it take for it to cross the line from just a phase to habit?</p>
<p>You saved him from possibly getting caught in college and being kicked out of said college. I think you did the absolutely right thing given the circumstances.</p>
<p>Besides. The one thing you're all probably forgetting here: a majority of teachers, when grading papers, type lines into Google to see what comes up. So chances are he would've been caught sooner or later anyway.</p>
<p>"You saved him from possibly getting caught in college and being kicked out of said college" </p>
<p>No, you have done much better...you have prevented your best friend from going to college...his Guidance counselor will have a lot to write about now lol</p>
<p>yeah, you should NEVER snitch on a friend...</p>
<p>The</a> Bad Samaritan - TIME</p>
<p>... seriously, think about what you are saying.</p>
<p>HisGraceFillsMe and tickytock14, thank you.
I'm on the honor council at my high school, the group of people students are brought to when they cheat. So, let's smash the OP's nose in? Come on. It's incredibly unfortunate that the consequences were so harsh but the student put himself in that situation. I just hope the student will get a lasting impression of the seriousness of cheating now... before that train of thought leads him to cheat on "silly" college assignments (and so on.) Hopefully the OP has put an end to this student's trend, when the consequences aren't as bad as they could be.
Side-note: This was a moving movie on the subject... Code</a> Breakers (2005) (TV)</p>