Re: Honor Systems
I admire the honor system in school because if someone tells me such a system exists, I would for sure thought that person was joking.
I think suspension/expulsion for a missed citation is stupid. That's trying way too hard to keep the community together. Rules are meant as guidelines and should be treated as such. What's the point of having a "honor committee" if you can't explain yourself for forgetting a footnote on an essay that you tried completing at the last minute?
Personally, I would follow all honor systems because the reward isn't worth getting caught. But if it's near 100% risk free and what I will be doing won't hurt anyone else's EV, I'm taking my chance. A prime example would be movies hopping. Seriously, has anyone ever pay for two movies on the same trip if they can slide into the next door and the workers don't care if they do see you? If you have, can you take one for the poor Asian kids the next time you want to pay and ship the amount to Red Gross? That's more honorable.
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