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Cheating? A Different Perspective

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There are many different views of what cheating is.

Recently, I joined the Solstice Summer Safari to help raise my salary. Some of the people have been "spamming" other teams' boards. Some of the solstice teams have been calling the team's whose boards have "spam" on them cheaters. Now here is a question for you. Just because one person "spams" on their board (whether from the team or not), does that mean that the whole team is trying to cheat? Isn't it just the one person who is cheating? Some people think that it is just a way to encourage others to post on their boards... but is it?

The same "issue" can be applied to the racing that goes on in Smart Car Racing. Some people consider it cheating by just turning around and crossing the finish line instead of going all the way around the track. City Hall does not necessarily think of this as cheating, though. She thinks of it as "A creative way to complete the course." (Refer to the article "Smart Money" by Giggler01.) Yet in real life, if I was in a race, could I just turn around and cross the finish line? No! Not only would I be disqualified from the race, but I would face the wrath of my coaches, team mates, friends and family. Yet it wouldn't be the team that cheated, just the person who turned around.

It's all the same; it's cheating. Yet it wouldn't be the whole team that cheated, just that one person. Think about it....

Spotallen

 

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