Are Essay Writing Services Ethical?

Are Essay Writing Services Ethical?

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No, it's not ethical. When you turn in someone else’s writing as your own, you are lying. There’s no grey area there. You can argue that the student felt it was necessary, or is worth the risk, or “who does it hurt?”’, or any other justification you want, but it does not make it not lying.

The teacher assigned you to write something, personally, in your own words. That is not what you turned in, but you said it was. The grade you will be given, someone else earned. You lied to your teacher to have it given to you. Everyone who looks at your transcript and sees your grade in that class, believing it reflects your mastery of the subject, is being lied to. That grade represents someone else’s mastery of the subject.

All of you who offer essay writing services, have the balls to stand by what that service is, okay? It’s not illegal. There’s a market for it, Just don’t pretend it’s some great service to mankind, designed to teach struggling students how to write better, by giving them”examples of essays” that they can look at while writing their own original essays. The number of students who call up an essay writer at the last minute and trade their beer -and-pizza money for someone else to complete their assignment are not doing it so they can sit down and STUDY its technique and learn from it and write their own original work….Jesus, guys, how do you even type that with a straight face? Yeah, I know that’s how you have to present your service so as not to get in trouble, but please don’t argue for that interpretation as if anyone believes it.

Turning in someone else’s work and saying it is yours is not ethical. It is cheating. One might argue whether it’s *justified*, or *necessary*, or ask who it hurts, but that’s not the same question. It’s in the same category as having someone use your ID to take a final exam for you. It’s a lie.

If people want to learn to write better, they can get tutoring in that, or (gasp) get help from the teacher whose job it is to teach them to write a good essay. You know, the one who assigned them the essay in the first place. He did that so he could give his students meaningful feedback on their writing, and now instead he is wasting his time giving feedback to a stranger. While the student who supposedly hired an essay service for the purpose of obtaining “an example of good writing he can learn from”, now *won’t* get the feedback that could have made him a better writer.

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