Assertion: cheat | /r/HasProperty | wrong
Facets:
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: except in extreme cases
type: OTHER
value: in the same way
type: MANNER
value: regardless of the consequences
type: OTHER
value: likewise
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Why Plagiarism and Cheating are Wrong
text: How many women say cheating is wrong?
text: First, know that students realize cheating is wrong
text: In this case, while cheating might be wrong, it is an acceptable means to a higher-level goal.
text: The percent of Americans who say that cheating is always wrong has actually increased, from around 65% in 1973 to about 81% in 2008.
text: Do you think cheating is always wrong?
text: All of these may—or may not—seem like relevant questions, even if in the end Sally says that cheating is wrong.
text: To conclude, utilitarians do make allowances for cheating in especially desperate cases, in which the consequences of cheating may be overall positive, but on the whole, they would agree that cheating is usually wrong.
text: In other words, you would be saying that cheating is wrong regardless of the consequences, no matter if it makes you and your paramour happier than it makes others unhappy.
text: A deontologist would be likely to say that cheating is wrong because it involves violating a duty of fidelity contained in the wedding vows, or breaking the promise you made to your spouse at your wedding, of failing to respect your spouse.
text: For instance, while deontologists may decide that cheating is wrong in general, they may make exceptions for certain circumstances, such cheating in the face of spousal neglect or abandonment.
text: Likewise, cheating would normally be wrong, unless the person feels neglected by his spouse (for example).
text: In the same way, cheating may generally be wrong, but cheating-when-neglected may not be, depending on how the duties are formulated (for instance, by using the categorical imperative in Kant's ethics).
text: In conclusion, deontology tells us pretty much the same thing that utilitarianism did: cheating is usually wrong, except in extreme cases.
text: We surveyed the three major ethical theories—utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics—each of them essentially different, but all of them arriving at basically the same conclusion: cheating is usually wrong, but can be justified in certain, possibly rare, instances.
text: I had naively assumed that my readers and my students were operating from the same ethical starting place: that cheating is wrong.
text: It boils down to this: we are told that cheating is wrong because we are attempting to earn a grade that we do not deserve.