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This is unethical, but not for the reasons given. It's unethical because it favors the pre-internet status quo of cheating within one's social circle. It was
by sevensor 3y ago
This is unethical, but not for the reasons given. It's unethical because it favors the pre-internet status quo of cheating within one's social circle. It was well known at my university that fraternities and sororities kept libraries of old exams. A policy that catches only internet cheaters is a policy that advantages socially connected cheaters over individual cheaters.
- kuroguro 3y agoOur uni's CS students kept an online catalogue of past exams/answers/cheat-sheets so it was somewhat democratic for it's time :) Tho I guess you had to know it exists to find it first.
- denton-scratch 3y ago> It's unethical because it favors the pre-internet status quo Don't agree. You're saying that if I can't catch all the cheaters, then I can never call anyone out for cheating. That's a licence to cheat. Cheating is bad, for the same reason corruption is bad; once it's accepted that it's allowed, then anyone who doesn't cheat/take and give bribes, then everyone who plays by the rules is at a disadvantage. Corruption is a disease that spreads if you don't stamp it out. Also: cheating on tests is an insult to the intelligence of the examiner. The cheaters are laughing at him. If you don't call out cheaters, then the whole idea of getting a graded result becomes meaningless; you might as well simply give every student that actually paid their fees an 'A', and do without exams. BTW, I think it's irrelevant that it's an ethics exam. You don't study Ethics to become more ethical. You study it to learn about the philosophy of ethics.