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Is it chegg or is it the institutions? I'd posit it's the latter; huge sums of money are at-risk for a fail grade not to mention time invested. People want to
by brnaftr361 4y ago
Is it chegg or is it the institutions?
I'd posit it's the latter; huge sums of money are at-risk for a fail grade not to mention time invested. People want to get on with their lives. Meanwhile institutions act as gatekeepers while jointly setting arbitrary standards and acting with the pretense that they're institutions of higher learning which simply isn't the case: they produce licensure for occupations. All of that pretense, the arbitrary expectations set makes it far more worthwhile to cheat. Why type up a paper on Shakespeare in a class deemed mandatory that a student has zero interest in or application for? And that can be stated about so many facets of college, the textbooks I've been expected to buy are formatted like a dumpster fire. The tuition I'm paying for what is essentially proctoring burns my ass. The fact I can get superior products across the board and actually have a gamut of options in instruction, methods, curriculum and resources - at significantly lower cost makes it a whole lot more justifiable both at the ethical and at the rational level to "cheat", I find it strange that someone might be upset that someone is swindling the swindler.
Having said that, I'd propose a bifurcation: actual higher learning institutions and vocational institutions. This weird amalgam that has developed, by my reckoning at least, results in the worst of both worlds.
- josephcsible 4y agoJustifying cheating because of those points about institutions feels like justifying stealing because of high inflation.
- brnaftr361 4y agoThat does not follow in the least. Think of it this way: If the institution implies that it is the arbiter of knowledge, or if society promotes it to be as such, and those who are empowered to act with the authority of such institutions lack the scruples to remedy the myriad issues, this is just the most seamless means to escape it.