Damn, your sexy mind makes me horny ugh. I'm just joking. Hahahahahha

But yeah, kidding aside, I completely understand you - as someone who had participated the discussions made today about academic dishonesty.

I resonate greatly when you pointed out the concept of attribution. Students really be out here treating everything and everyone like a walking MIT-licensed resource, but they (your classmates, if you, the one who's reading this, is still a student) are not MIT-licensed.

I was amazed when you said that about attribution. In the academic society, it acts like the currency for using other's knowledge, and I have so much respect for that. I have this one redditor that pointed out that I am looking down on people who are cheating (and that he does not, in a "you should do this too" manner) I completely see that it was done from a pure place, but I would like to object. I won't say that I look down to them, but if attribution is that currency in this barter of knowledge and that they do not do that, then I will proudly say that I am more than those thieves.

Some redditors are telling me "Karma na lang" . When I was reading your post, I was reminded that Karma is not even real, and that people really do get away with things like this.

But.....It all boils down on our expections (I'd even go as far as seeing them as mandatory) on allegiance to the moral frameworks that we are expected to abide to even though they had been distorted by relativists.

So there goes the question: who/what governs the arbitrariness of our moral compass (at least in our personal domains of academic integrity)? I'm still not sure about this but I think academic collaboration (the one that fosters professional growth) and academic collusion (the disgusting one) is not a black and white concept. But who says which is which? The one who draws the line are the professors. They should always state the rules so that no one is talking about academic dishonesty in a very subjectivist manner.

Sadly, students have lower regards to these said "written" rules because of the success of making academic dishonesty a social norm (manifested with academic commissions, academic collusions, and other things). I think there is an environmental factor that played in as well because of this online setup.

Salamat! My disgruntled mind who expects so much of our society to abide on what had been said is right is tired. Second sem is coming. I wanna be on the right mindset.