Dec
14
There’s no doubt that cheating has short term benefits. That, however, is the only good thing about cheating. The cons of cheating are many in number. Cheating violates ethical and moral standards and it’s just not fair. It places people on an uneven ground with others and gives them advantages no one else has. So why cheat?
Let me refine my point. I’ve always wondered, since so many people have been angered at Barry Bonds’s allegations, if those people have not cheated themselves. If students in school and other people can be so mad at someone who has potentially cheated on a grand stage, then why do people still cheat? Why do students read off other students’ papers? Why do they copy each other’s homework? Surely, it saves time and it grants a better chance for success. But is it done because students don’t want to fail? Or is it done because students don’t feel that school is important enough to spend their time on it?
If it’s the latter, then why do students let others copy their work? Why should I work so hard, only to have some freeloader take everything I’ve done in a matter of seconds? We should be fair about our successes and our failures. If we need help with something, we should ask for it. If we just can’t make it after trying and trying again, maybe that thing isn’t our specialty. Humans cannot be perfect at everything, and they were definitely not made to one-up each other and get unfair advantages on each other. Cheating is a real thing and an issue. The problem is that the honor in fairness is not portrayed and not as tangible as the rewards of cheating; this is why people cheat.
Instead of cheating, we should accept what we get for what it is. We should be able to work with honor and ethics that portray good human morals. We all have it in us somewhere. Cheating your way through school doesn’t make you educated; it just teaches you how to get around the system. Schools are made so you can learn new things, even if your grade doesn’t portray such. Of course, grades are important, since GPA is important (and perhaps more so than it should be, but it’s the easiest way to judge how well someone does), but taking unfair means to boost that grade is, in short, wrong.