I’d say “the point at which the vast majority of your customers are using it to cheat” is pretty clearly over the line, even if we might end up quibbling about a more marginal case. The best...
I’d say “the point at which the vast majority of your customers are using it to cheat” is pretty clearly over the line, even if we might end up quibbling about a more marginal case.
The best argument I can manage in their favour, and it’s one I feel is far too devil’s-advocatey to really have merit, is that college itself is an essentially arbitrary requirement for many careers and treating it as a checkbox exercise to achieve that specific end is at least understandable. Plagiarism is barely even a concept in many areas of business, and employing someone else to do work on your behalf is totally standard. They’re following the observed rules of the society we all live in, rather than the rules of the academic institution that they didn’t feel they had a meaningful choice about attending.
All of that still rings hollow to me in many ways, but it at least seems logically consistent. Still not ethical, but arguably pragmatic.
I guess I'll take the bait -- is this business "ethically questionable", or it just plain unethical?
I have the same question.
But where do we draw the lines on such things?
I’d say “the point at which the vast majority of your customers are using it to cheat” is pretty clearly over the line, even if we might end up quibbling about a more marginal case.
The best argument I can manage in their favour, and it’s one I feel is far too devil’s-advocatey to really have merit, is that college itself is an essentially arbitrary requirement for many careers and treating it as a checkbox exercise to achieve that specific end is at least understandable. Plagiarism is barely even a concept in many areas of business, and employing someone else to do work on your behalf is totally standard. They’re following the observed rules of the society we all live in, rather than the rules of the academic institution that they didn’t feel they had a meaningful choice about attending.
All of that still rings hollow to me in many ways, but it at least seems logically consistent. Still not ethical, but arguably pragmatic.