Dean Kaw (?) did a great job on pointing out many of the various ways people are unethical in our world today. I would have to agree with him - How sad is it that the "norm" now is to cheat and lie? I've experienced this in high school and will admit that I haven't kept perfect integrity myself. Many students in high school would cheat on homework and even on tests. I've seen my friends do it and in the end they really do cheat themselves. It doesn't make them learn anything and doesn't make them smarter, but when they don't get caught they do get the grade. Things get out of hand and "help" on homework resorts to just copying someone else's work, the work that they spent time and effort on. In my school, they implemented something that they hoped would decrease cheating. They had every student sign an academic integrity contract that said that they would not cheat on any kind of assignment. It should have helped, but I'm not sure if it did.
Something I always think about when it comes to cheating is going to the doctor. The question is whether you would want a doctor to perform surgery or any procedure on you if they had only cheated their way through medical school. The obvious answer is no. It's scary what people can achieve through cheating and getting away with it. For this reason, it is up to us, the leaders, to draw a firm line of where we will stand. We cannot reset this line or compromise our standards for anything. It's a difficult situation when there is so much competition and many other people are cheating, but it the end what matters is how you conduct yourself and the integrity you hold.
Integrity is one of the vital characteristics we need to preserve in our society. One way we can do this is by setting the example for others. When we set our standards high, other people see that and watch what we do. If we slip up, they will notice. Therefore, we need to strive to possess within ourselves integrity, high moral conduct. We can follow Christ is this aspect and do the best we can.
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I like the way how you describe your high school days because when i was in junior high i used to have that kind of friends, and i don't want to lie i did those things few time as well. When i will think about that i feel like was dumb that time because i realize that i was cheating on myself. But when i applied that mistake in my life i am doing much better these days and for sure it will lead me towards success.
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