Cheating has been a substantial occurrence throughout the years not only in the classroom but in other areas such as sports, businesses, and life in general. There have been several rules set in place to try and subdue cheating and people are expected to adhere to them but yet people still cheat. Clearly the sang "rules are meant to be broken" is evidently true. Just recently Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids along with Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Sammy Sosa, future Hall-of-famers of baseball cheating? The only simple answer is the desire to be the best. It is seen in the business world daily to do whatever it takes to get ahead of the competition and basically that is the attitude for most students towards their studies. I am not a big fan of cheating just because the repercussions are so devastating now and days, you can get expelled out of college and possibly never get into another college or university. I think cheating is repeatedly occurred on the stress levels of not being able to succeed in a particular area or just trying to get by without doing little or no work as possible.
“Excuse me, but there are worse things to do than cheat on homework” a quote from Nathans paper from a student at a university. This quote clearly displays how cheating is viewed in today’s society on the academic level, lackadaisical. No one see’s, besides professors and administrators, the big deal of doing a little peak here and there on someone’s paper to get by on a test or quiz that is needed to do well in the course. I am not justifying cheating and I certainly do not condone cheating because I don’t think; well actually I know you do not learn anything by copying off someone else’s paper for answers.
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One wonders if Barry Bonds and all of them would be as popular if they didn't use steroids, and maybe fans actually want to see them "cheat". Home runs and big plays are exciting and if steroids provide more of them, maybe they aren't so bad.
ReplyDeleteI see what you're saying, but for years players like Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron set records and made a lot of big plays, and I highly doubt they used steroids. When a player starts breaking records or going to the Hall of Fame because of steroid use, they are cheating honest players out of money and publicity
ReplyDeleteI think the main issue with using the metaphor of steroid use is that baseball players are competing against each other and if one of them uses steriods it harms everyone else. For example everytime Bonds stepped up to the plate in his prime when he was juicing, he would hurt those pitchers era's. This idea does not hold in most of academia. If i got 100 on a test and then someone got the same but cheated that doesnt hurt me at all
ReplyDeleteThese big name players take steroids not only to try to be the best. They do this to try and keep their jobs and not getting beat out by the guy behind them. Its very common in the minor leagues because players will do what ever they can to reach the majors.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that steroid use is a form of cheating... if it is used to "help" you do better, then why isn't it allowed? It is banned for the reason of players to be natural athletes, and if they need assistance to perform the job that is expected of them, maybe they shouldn't be doing what they are doing...
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