Cheating Ethical Decision Making

In “No Edit,” written by Randy Cohen, a new ethical dilemma is beginning to unveil itself with the number of students applying for college starting to grow yearly. Teachers are beginning to question if editing a student’s college essay application should be considered cheating or if it is even ethically correct. This is an example of ethics in everyday life, and how a person should work through situations to make the most ethically correct decision. Ethics, as defined in “Ethics—The Concept of ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong,’” is a complete branch of knowledge and can be easily placed in moral philosophy” (The Concept par. 2). In “The Cheating Game,” written by Carolyn Kleiner and Mary Lord, it is mentioned that “competition for admission to elite colleges has transformed the high school years into a high-stakes race where top students compete for a spot on the sweet end on the curve,” (The Cheating Game, par. 10). In addition to students competing for highly competitive spots at high-end colleges across the nation, surveys “notes that 50 years ago, only about one in five college students admitted to having cheated in high school … studies show that figure has exploded, to anywhere from

In this approach “starts from the belief that humans have a dignity based on their human nature per se or on their ability to choose freely what they do with their lives” (A Framework 276). This approach leads you to believe that you can do whatever you please as long as you’re okay with living with the consequences. Ultimately, there is also a list of moral rights that must also be considered when evaluating this approach, and they are “including the rights to make one’s own choices about what kind of life to lead, to be told the truth, not to be injured, to a degree of privacy,” (A Framework 276) as well as