tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049414276944858688.post2374914335475684218..comments2024-02-20T21:17:35.156-08:00Comments on Robert Philen's Blog: Drinking and CheatingRobert Philenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09457837427267431889noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049414276944858688.post-3313927735571523592007-10-29T14:39:00.000-07:002007-10-29T14:39:00.000-07:00The rhetoric that equates underage drinking with a...The rhetoric that equates underage drinking with academic cheating is bogus and misleading. Using that logic, people who drive over the posted speed limit are the moral equivalent of embezzlers. Most people would say (rightly) that that's nonsense. <BR/><BR/>So IMO this guy should stop trying to convince people that students drinking is as bad as students cheating, because it just makes him look silly. <BR/><BR/>It seems like we're mixing up different issues:<BR/><BR/>1) morally acceptable (or at least morally neutral) behaviors <BR/>2) legally permitted/restricted behaviors<BR/>3) the inevitable grey zones around unethical behaviors (what "counts" as cheating in a given situation; what kinds of cheating are worse than others; etc). <BR/>4) behaviors that put the individual or (morally much worse) innocent others at mortal risk (ie drunk driving) <BR/><BR/>Treating all these things as equivalents is sloppy thinking, and it doesn't advance informed discussion on the issues, IMO. <BR/><BR/>Oh fwiw I'm not an underage drinker. I'm a (legal) 40-something drinker. :-)MCWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06543038928257850516noreply@blogger.com