It has been brought to my attention that you can buy almost anything on Craigs list. In Lancaster a man was charged for writing term papers for academic submission. In 1972 the state passed a law saying that you may not sell tern papers or written works that will be submitted for academic credit.
Having the ability to access the world and all the information that goes with it in the click of a mouse has created a world with very few barriers. Creating laws that would prohibit or at least punish people from plagiarism would need to be enforced. If people don't have strong enough morals to not cheat then the laws and their consequences should help motivate them not to. This could be a double edge sword in that creating laws you could have issues with siting papers to people limiting the amount of information on the Internet. That would not be productive. So the question is then were has morality gone?
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