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    Pearlman “Cheating in School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society” talks about how cheating is wrong. Pearlman explains how cheating in school can affect students later on in life. Many students cheat whether their in elementary, high school, or college, cheating is everywhere and everyone does it. Cheating is wrong in numerous ways and can result to bad habits in the future. Cheating has always been around and not just cheating in school, cheating in daily life events. In the article, “Cheating in School

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    Personal Ethics: What does it mean to be an ethical person? Cheating on taxes, exams, relationships, etc., seems to be rampant. Is this a problem? Why or why not? Personal ethics is the generally accepted principles or practices of right and wrong governing the conduct of individuals. To be simple, personal ethnic is the internal guide that tells us what is right and wrong. They drive our actions and emotions on o daily basis. Some people may be appearing similar set of personal ethics, but some

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    Why Cheating Is Wrong

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    Cheating is always wrong. This is a lesson we all need to learn at a young age. No matter what the issue; cheating is never the solution. Sadly, it seems that cheating has become something looked at as a means to end or a way to advance quicker further. But no one can ever be truely satisfied with their accomplishments if they are gained by cheating. It is my opinion that from a very young age we all subconsciously know that cheating is wrong. As we grow and develop our subconscious can be influenced

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    Is Cheating Unethical

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    Cheating is unethical because it is wrong in every way, shape, and form. The definition of unethical in dictionary.com is “lacking moral principles, and unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.” When you decide to cheat you have lacked your moral principles. You are no longer a person to trust. You have decided to not play by fair rules, and therefore have lost your integrity. Cheating is unethical because it's not fair that you take advantage of another person’s intelligence for you to take

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    familiar with the concept that cheating is wrong. However, the culture we live in today is becoming less black and white and showing all the different shades of grey. Cheating is becoming a situational topic. In some situations it is considered the right thing to do. Everyone has cheating in some aspect of life, whether it be school, work, sports, games, using forms of enhancements or forms of deception. Cheating is all around and i very unpreventable. In the article “Cheating Upwards” Robert Kolker writes

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    Cheating in school is, while frowned upon, very common; especially in high school age students who have a lot riding on them to succeed. In a quote from Mari Pearlman’s LA Times article, “Cheating in School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society” she explains that teachers get upset with parents who proudly cheat on “income taxes, fooling a boss or supervisor, taking supplies from a workplace to use at home” but the same parents want teachers to discipline students who cheat. Students become confused

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    utilitarian ethics would justify that you should not cheat on a test. Mills theory is based on social rules that decide what is “right” or “wrong.” Meaning that society decides what is wrong and right, by capital punishment, public approval or disapproval. Based off of this we can see how Mills theory supports not cheating on at test because if you were to get caught cheating there would be a lot of public disapproval and you could even receive a very harsh punishment for example; you could get a zero on

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    Is Cheating Ethical

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    members. Kant said that you should never treat people as a means of some ends. People should always be treated as ends in themselves; it promotes equality among human beings. So at last we can say that according to principle of categoricalism doing wrong thing or action is always wrong no matter what ever will be the end or doing wrong thing would benefit how many people. Cheating in class or exam is wrong and one person should not do that (rsrevision/kantandthecatimp.htm). Is it ethical thing

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    about something almost everyone has been through at least one point in their life. Cheating most but maybe not all guys or girls have cheated on or with. It is the hardest thing for anyone to ever go through. Imagine giving all one person's trust and love and attention to one person and they just ruin all of someone's trust and leave one and not care all of a sudden. Then tell one or one find out he was cheating on ones the whole time and left one for someone else. They might not be prettier than

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    talk about something almost everyone has been through at least once point in their life. Cheating most but maybe not all guys or girls have cheated on or with. It is the hardest thing to go through. Imagine giving all one person’s trust and love and attention to one person and they just ruin all of someone’s trust and leave one and not care all of a sudden. Then then tell one or one find out he was cheating on ones the whole time and left one for someone else. They might not be prettier than one

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