Plagiarism

I believe Sadler's argument is the better of the two. She argues that "plagiarism violates the trust upon which higher education is established," which aims at the moral issue of plagiarizing. As much as teachers and staff can (and try) to prevent students from plagiarizing it is impossible to stop it, so why should students stop? Because it is wrong. When we were growing up we were told not to steal, lie, cheat and plagiarism is all of these things. Just because we are older does not mean we should cease to live by our morals that our parents' instilled in our youth. I honestly think that plagiarism is the easy way out of doing the work. Some may see it as a harmless filler in an essay, but I see it as a person who can not fully commit to doing all of the work, and doing it right. Plagiarism subconsciously teaches that it is okay to okay to take the easy way out and steal someone's ideas and works and use it as our own.