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by !Baha, 24 August 2009
With school about to start, it seems appropriate to think about how we choose to define success. Is it getting high grades, is it doing well on exams, does it matter whether one cheats to get the higher grades ? iCUBED.us would like to present two articles for our readers to reflect on in helping you to think about this most important concept of how we define success for ourselves as we go through our years in school earning a degree or preparing to make a living. We hope you will feel free to comment or discuss with friends your thoughts on the article excerpts below:
ETHICS, CHEATING & PIRACY... by Margaret Chen
"THE MEANING OF LIFE: Eudaimonia, Dharma, & True North
What’s the answer to our current insipid lowering-of-Standards and our relativistic morality?
Is it, when in Rome do like the Romans ? Will Justice be served if everyone cheated?
Or is holding ourselves up to a higher standard, to an internal measure of ethics and morality – a sort of inner True North which can guide us like a compass when we have lost our way, with the knowledge that what matters most is for each of us to strive for what can truly make us “happy” at the end of the day.
Those of us with insight will have realized that success/money-alone does not insure happiness, or a life well lived.
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And in the final analysis, the reward for being ethical is simply the basic, and also the most difficult of human endeavors, to be able to look back on our lives and feel a sense of pride and accomplishment at having achieved a life well lived. "
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EVERYONE CHEATS! SO WHY SHOULDN'T I?!... by H.Hu
...a school should aim to foster a sense of community between students and staff. Breaches of honor would not be dismissed as victimless crimes but rather seen as damaging the institution in which both students and staff are engaged.
To cheat on an exam would give one an unfair advantage over all other exam takers who have not cheated. Lawrence Hinman believes that, ”*Schools and other organizations can do much to promote integrity, by extolling its virtues and honoring those who display it,+ rather than shunning them. However, looking outward cannot be our total response. Integrity is primarily a virtue that comes from within, and the best way each of us can promote integrity is to exemplify it, to lead lives that embody our sense of moral values. *Integrity can best be handed down to our children and our students by example*—by committing ourselves to our own best moral ideals and by seeking to realize that commitment in our everyday lives. Integrity, like most other good things, begins at home.”
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Has anyone cheated, and willing to share about that experience?
Cheating seems like a "sure thing", but some think that it is a 'sure thing' that you'll be caught, others think it's a 'sure thing' that you'll get a better grade - what do YOU think it is?
AND, do you think that EVEN IF you got a better grade by cheating, that you're still cheating yourself out of the knowledge that YOU are SMART ENOUGH to do it the right way? *share your thoughts with us...
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~ Margaret (Mags)
'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.'
Chrissy - age 6