Ethical Dilemma Paper

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Dilemma Paper As an engineering student calculus is fundamental to nearly every aspect of engineering. My experience with calculus started before I became an engineering student, it started while I was still in high school when I was in AP Calculus BC. AP Calculus BC was one of the hardest AP courses offered in my school, appropriately, only the top math students were permitted to take it. However, in my class there was a sharp distinction between the students who knew what they were doing, who had some idea of what was going on, and who didn’t follow what was going on at all. In the beginning of the year one of my classmates, who didn’t know what was going on at all felt that in order to succeed he’d cheat off of me on the quizzes and exams. At first I ignored the issue, seeing his actions as me being paranoid over people copying off of me, I simply saw what was cheating as him thinking and just coincidently looking in my direction. After a few quizzes and one test I realizes something wasn’t …show more content…

Starting by recognizing that there was a problem, I distinguished that my classmates cheating violated my morals and was a moral issue (Johnson 203). Immediately after recognizing there was an issue I started trying to determine the actor, at first I deemed myself responsible for addressing the issue as he was my friend and deserved my help in an ethical manner; however I later realized my teacher would be the person most responsible for addressing the problem (Johnson 203). This also showed me one of the weaknesses of Kidder’s Ethical Checkpoints as determining who has the responsibility to solve the problem was not easy especially considering he, as the cheater, was responsible for his action, my teacher, as the leader in charge was responsible for addressing cheating, and me, being the cheated was responsible for stopping him when I realized what was going on (Johnson

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