Cheating – Is It Good or Bad?

[Margareth]

What should a person do if everyone wants to cheat from his copybook? That is a good question, as our parents used to say that cheating is bad all the time when we were small kids. But experience shows that cheating can be good sometimes. On the other hand, when someone is trying to cheat something out of you, it can easily turn you into an aggressive and nervous person. Now let’s look closer at some of the advantages of cheating. Information from this article may later be a good source for your own college essay when you start a blog.

Advantages of Cheating​

1. Everyone likes you. People often compliment you and give you some small presents, for example chocolates.
2. Classmates respect you or pretend to do so. In most of the cases, their attitude towards you is nice but fake.
3. Teachers like you as well, as they always know who helps everyone else in the class and who is the most hard-working.
4. When you get sick everyone starts calling and asking you about your health and recovery.
5. You will never sit alone at your desk, as there are lots of neighbors with tons of problems in their academic performance.

Disadvantages of Cheating​

1. Helping others out can waste much of your time, especially during exams. Moreover, some of the teachers are very strict and may give you a bad mark or ask you to leave the classroom and retake an exam later.
2. If you don’t do your homework once in a while, everyone will blame on you and think about you as of the main reasons of their bad academic performance.
3. If you let someone use your cribs, you will have to do it all the time. Otherwise, your classmates will simply stop talking to you.
4. Letting others use you will never show you real and fake friends.

Solutions to the Problem​

1. Honesty. You should tell everyone that from now on everyone is responsible for their grades and you are not going to cheat. The reaction may be controversial but everyone should respect your opinion. Besides, if you are honest with people, you will see your real friends and enemies.
2. Deliberate deception. You can try to write wrong answers and give them to others as well. Your academic performance will suffer a bit and your teacher won’t understand how it happened, but in the future, no one will ask your help again.
3. A+. If you attend all the classes and do all the homework, your teacher will probably give you an A+ in advance, so you won’t need to attend an exam and help others out.

 

[WIP]

The problem with cheating is that it puts others at risk and can potentially hurt yourself as much or more than others. Sounds like you're speaking in terms of education so I'll continue along those lines.

Suppose you allow others to use you as a means to cheat. In other words, you are the one "helping" others cheat in order to improve their grades. In fact, you do so well at it that they get better grades than you do even though they never learn the lessons. Now, let's say you and one of those others are out of school and both applying for the same career position. So far, the interviewer is very pleased with both of you. Both of your resume's include your academic records and the interviewer looks them over and discovers that the other candidate scored a little higher GPA. Unknown to the interviewer, because that person cheated, he/she is not even remotely qualified for the position, but based on those academic records the interviewer chooses the other person (the one you helped cheat through school) over you.

Did anyone get hurt in this situation? Yes.

• You did because you lost out on a great career opportunity and it was partly your own doing.
• The employer did because they got an unqualified candidate and will spend a lot of money or lose customers before figuring it out.
• Depending on the career, the customers that employer serves may also get hurt by poor, uniformed, and unqualified results.

Now suppose you or a someone you love (mother, father, child, etc.) is scheduled for a major surgery. How would you feel if you discover that the surgeon cheated his/her way through med school? Do you think nobody is hurt by this cheating?

 

[for_his_glory]

Hi Margareth and welcome to CF

Good question.

Cheating is acting dishonestly for personal success. Dishonesty mars an individuals integrity and reputation. Cheating seeks to bypass the learning process and manipulate consequences through dishonesty. If you are a Christian it brings no glory to God, but shame on yourself.

Proverbs 10:9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Gal 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

James 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.