| | Ted Keer wrote:
1: I write as well as edit term papers. Email me if you want my rates.
3: I write papers to order
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This is something to which I have given a lot of thought over the years from both sides of the lectern.
On the one hand...
You are paying the school. They are not paying you. So, if you want to cheat, it is none of their business.
If you put your name on someone else's work, you are only cheating yourself, so it's no one else's business if you do.
If you write a term paper for someone you are not responsible for what they do with it. You are only providing another source, as if they read any other article or book. If they put their name on your work and turn it in, that is not your problem.
If you write a paper for someone to put their name on, at an institution where you are not enrolled, there is no jurisdictional consequence to you. (Most schools with honor codes consider it a violation to let someone copy from you, also, recognizing that you can be unknowing, for instance, if they look over your shoulder during a test. Writing a term paper for someone would not be passive. But if the school can't touch you, you win, and it remains your customer's problem.))
ON THE OTHER HAND:
1. This is an example of white collar crime called academic fraud.
2. In professional research, if you fake your results, you have defrauded the funding agency.
2.a. If you are in school on someone else's money (parents, employer, scholarship or government loan), then you have defrauded them.
3. A school honor code typically requires that you promise that the work you offer is your own and when you take from others, you cite your sources. Not to do so is plagiarism.
4. Anyone who would cheat in school would defraud others in other contexts. Crime is a way of life, not a fleeting exception, for criminals.
4.a. Anyone who would aid cheating in school would be a party to fraud in other social contexts, crime being a way of life.
5. Anyone who would let someone else do their thinking for them is not to be trusted and anyone who would do that in school, especially at university violates their own personhood.
5.a. While harming yourself may be your legal right under objective law, by Objectivist Ethics, it is wrong to do so.
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One the one hand....
I am shocked, Ted, that someone who claims to be versed in scholasticism, and who claims to be an Objectivist, would offer this service.
On the other hand...
You seem to enjoy being a punk, and this confirms the lower range of my expectations for you.
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I am not talking about the many ways that you can get paid for academic work. Proofreading and editing are examples. Depending on intent, compiling an annotated bibliography is another valid service.
Coaching can be valid. "This professor is known to reward students who cite his works." or "The key to this experiment is the titration and it trips up a lot of people."
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Also, a minor point, perhaps, all you did above was explain "meta." I thought the question at hand was more involved than that, being centered on foundationalism and internalism, but perhaps, I am not so clever as you, and if I were your professor, I would not catch you cheating, and after all, you only cheated him of an answer, not me.
Final point: I challenge you to answer this without a graphic pasted from another website, i.e, let this be your own work, if that is possible.
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