Topic #5

I think for art students it is largely moral incentives because they chose to go to the school, and they are investing a lot into it. Plagiarizing someone else's work is a risk because if they get caught, they can get kicked out of the school and waste the effort they spent getting there; besides, what is the point of even going to the school if they are not going to do their own work? Someone is not always going to be there to do their work for them. I want to be able to know that I did something and I actually deserved the grade I got, even if it is a bad one. I would rather be dismissed from a school for a lack of effort on my part than because I was capable of doing the work myself, but I chose to take the easy route and purposely stole someone else's idea. The amount of money that I spent at school would really feel wasted then, and I would feel like I disappointed people besides myself.