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I think some people are missing a few critical points of this exercise: 1) the homework was supposed to work out your thinking muscles. Getting the "right" ans

I think some people are missing a few critical points of this exercise: 1) the homework was supposed to work out your thinking muscles. Getting the "right" answer wasn't the point of the assignment as much as trying to discover how to obtain an answer. (much better described in these comments by pohl) 2) On crying "entrapment": See Orpheus and Eurydice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus#Death_of_Eurydice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus#Death_of_Eurydice). There were rules clearly put in place and whether they made sense or not, if broken carried with them penalties that the perpetrators were well aware of. If that doesn't smell like the "real world" I don't know what does. With that said... 3) Universities are NOT the real world. They barely resemble the real world. The point of university has never been to "prepare you for the real world."

Semiapies 16y ago
As for 1, I think you're missing that a lot of people responded before the blogger updated the post (twice) in order to explain those points, including that he'd misremembered how the question was phrased. As for 2, heaven forfend anyone apply ethics to the actions of those in authority. As for 3, well, you've just cancelled out your second point.