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So you're basically arguing that there are situations when cheating is ethical if it wasn't the intent of the academic honestly policy to disallow it. Let's sup
by neilc 17y ago
So you're basically arguing that there are situations when cheating is ethical if it wasn't the intent of the academic honestly policy to disallow it. Let's suppose that is true: what is a case of cheating that academic honesty policies aren't intended to disallow? Certainly a student cheating because they find the assignment "ridiculous" is very much what an academic policy is explicitly designed to outlaw.
The same holds for the contract you have with a school. It must forbid cheating, to prevent people from harming themselves.
The primary goal of an academic honesty policy is clearly not "to prevent people from harming themselves."
- Retric 17y agoFrom a Yale's perspective they don't mind that some rich student is cheating if they are not blatant, because it does not harm the school's reputation to let them relative to the benefit of having that type of student graduate. Having an football player cheat at Virginia Tech is inline with the schools larger goals relative to having that student fail. Now all schools are going to make a pretense of an academic honesty policy, but some schools actively use that as a screen to let students cheat their way to C's. Edit: I still think cheating harms fellow students, but plenty of schools let fairly rampant cheating go on for years.