Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating
by saalweachter on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:25PM
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Or you copy copyrighted or patented works into your knowledge-worker output, creating liabilities for your employer which can destroy it.
Or if you generalized cheating from "copying answers" to "producing answers that look right to your employers", you get a whole range of dishonest behavior you can get away with for years (careers?) while causing serious harm to individuals, companies and communities. Using unsafe materials which superficially pass inspection, outright faking studies so that it looks like your drugs work, fingering a likely suspect in a criminal investigation and lying on the stand to get them convicted.
I'm not a fan of slippery slope arguments, but there is sometimes a logical appeal.
Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating
by eecsninja on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:17PM
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These are real-world situations with real consequences on people's time, money, and lives. Honesty and ethics matter here. That's what licensing requirements are for. That's different from the academic system where you only use 10% of what you learn, once you go into the real world.
Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating
by kd5bjo on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:06AM
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My career ended up in a different field than my degree, so I don't use much of what I was taught in university, but it's still quite useful to me:
* It taught me how to learn difficult things quickly.
* The parts I do use were drilled to being second nature by the advanced courses I don't use anymore
You cheat on your test and become a lawyer, I may end up in jail because of your cheating.
... Or, you become a teacher, and my education is harmed.
... Or, an activity worker, and I fall off a climbing wall.
... Or, a scientist, and I waste time and resources repeating an experiment because you didn't understand what you were doing and lied to cover it up.
... Or, become a shop worker and I get short changed.
... Or, make sandwiches, and kill people because you don't follow basic hygiene and cheated to get your certificate.
... Or, a million other possible scenarios where people trust you to represent yourself so they know whether you're capable of carrying out the tasks you're set.