"Deflategate" has been the hottest topic in the sports world in 2015. Deflategate comes in a long line of cheating scandals in sports in recent years, with the other being Lance Armstrong. In both Deflategate and in the case of Lance Armstrong's scandal, there were a large number of individuals who justified their cheating because "everyone was doing it". This type of reasoning is dangerous as it teaches children, and others, that cheating can be justified. Be it in academics or sports, there is no situation where cheating is acceptable.
Cheating is defined as act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination. On its most basic level, cheating is lying. When you cheat when handing in an assignment or taking an exam, you misrepresent your work as your own. This misrepresentation has numerous effects on yourself and others.
There is an old saying which goes, “when you cheat you are really cheating yourself”. By cheating you are preventing yourself from developing the knowledge and skills you will need later in life. Cheating can also cause a chain reaction that leads to …show more content…
Cheating affects the students that put in the hard to work to achieve a good grade only to be eclipsed by someone who cheated to a perfect score. Cheating can affect your future employer, who hires someone based on their ill-gotten school results, is shortchanged when it turns you they do not actually possess the skills and knowledge they were supposed to have learned. This results in a company wasting time and resources in either training that individual, or conducting a new search to replace them altogether.
It has been shown that the ramifications of cheating extend not only to the cheater himself, but also to those around them. These ramifications include the loss of important skills, trust, and a loss of resources. For these reasons, among others, cheating is wrong and cannot be
Cheating is defined as act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination. On its most basic level, cheating is lying. When you cheat when handing in an assignment or taking an exam, you misrepresent your work as your own. This misrepresentation has numerous effects on yourself and others.
There is an old saying which goes, “when you cheat you are really cheating yourself”. By cheating you are preventing yourself from developing the knowledge and skills you will need later in life. Cheating can also cause a chain reaction that leads to …show more content…
Cheating affects the students that put in the hard to work to achieve a good grade only to be eclipsed by someone who cheated to a perfect score. Cheating can affect your future employer, who hires someone based on their ill-gotten school results, is shortchanged when it turns you they do not actually possess the skills and knowledge they were supposed to have learned. This results in a company wasting time and resources in either training that individual, or conducting a new search to replace them altogether.
It has been shown that the ramifications of cheating extend not only to the cheater himself, but also to those around them. These ramifications include the loss of important skills, trust, and a loss of resources. For these reasons, among others, cheating is wrong and cannot be