Plagiarism In Primary Schools

Plagiarism is commonly being done all throughout the school systems and elsewhere. This is defined as copying one's own work and stating that it is your own without proper citation. Some people do not realize that they are plagiarizing, and do not mean to do it on purpose but others do it purposefully. All that needs to be done if you want to 'steal' someone else's words is to cite where the quote came from. Over the past few decades, a sizable industry has arisen to serve the demand for ready-made and even customized compositions and term papers. Many students are now buying these papers for a small fee and submitting them for their classes. This is considered plagiarizing because it is directly using someone else's words that were not created …show more content…
Outside the academy, it is a crime that can be prosecuted if the person to whom the ideas and words belong wishes to bring charges" (Ruggiero, p. 19). Plagiarizing can become a serious deal in the academic world as well as outside of it. It is considered an ethical violation and should not be done under any circumstances. When people buy term papers from the internet and use them as their own paper for a class, it is called plagiarizing. The two Primary Schools of Ethics this situation can be solved with are the ends-based thinking and the rules-based thinking. In the reading, "How Good People Make Tough Choices", Kidder states that "The ends-based thinking known to philosophers as utilitarianism, this principle is best known by the maxim Do whatever produces the greatest good for the greatest number" (Kidder, p. 23). This thinking is being able to predict the consequences of different actions. The ends-based thinking would be a good choice of ethics to use for this situation. If we know the consequences that plagiarizing could affect us in the academic world, we would …show more content…
All of these are considered to help us come to final conclusions of using morally good ethics in certain situations. Each of them helps us come to different conclusions based on what we decide we want to do in the end based on a different style and method. Aristotle was a very bright and intelligent man. The reading notes that, "Aristotle authored as many as four hundred works on a variety of subjects ranging from theoretical and practical science to politics, rhetoric, logic, and ethics. In his view, moral principles exist in the daily activities of human life and can be discovered by examining those activities. Happiness is to be attained by developing one's potential for a life of reason" (Ruggiero, p. 147). I think he would approve of it because he wants happiness, and by using the ends and rules-based thinking, , it would give us happiness if we choose the right decision, which would be to not buy the term paper. Aristotle’s outlook is that he believes the activities we do in our life each day will form our morals and define our ethical decisions that are to be made. Overall, the Primary Schools of Ethics and Aristotle's theory will both help us in coming to the ethical decision at the end of the