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Pledge condemns cheaters to Hell, MTSU students asked to sign
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Frustrated over cheating allegations, one professor at Middle Tennessee State University took the idea of a traditional honor code in a controversial direction.
Suspecting that one of his MBA candidates had just cheated on an exam, Professor Thomas Tang had each of them sign a pledge that said if they had cheated, they’d be condemned to an eternity in Hell.
The pledge went on to say if the student cheated they will “be sorry for the rest of [their] life and go to Hell.”
These are MBA candidates, so they have no soul to begin with… As is shown in this part of the item:
Professor Tang admits, he may have overreacted but says he was particularly because the course had previously covered the chapter on ethics.
Not a semester, or course, no. A chapter. A whole chapter!
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First of all what the F are you talking about? Saying the MBA students have no soul?????? Who are you to say this? Every human being has a soul…duh! I am a student in the class and everything has been resolved…so we hope.
So you start your argument with “First…” and mention only one point. You then dismiss that point with “duh!” and no arguments whatsoever. Also, your irony meter is clearly broken.
So, yes, I believe that you are indeed a student from that class.
Assuming you meant ‘soul’ this in non-religious terms, which I think was not realized on the 1st comment, I submit signaling out MBA students is an error (..actually a gross generalization). I am sure there are plenty MBAs that will maintain good conscience throughout their careers. The problem of lack of ethics and social conscientiousness paints a wide swath across many formal disciplines and “trades”. Witness the current health care debate in the US for example. Do you think those responsible for the 10s of thousands without health insurance have a soul? I think not. And what about the lobbyists, most of which I doubt have MBAs, engaged to derail it? And then the lawyers… etc. Conclusion – lack of ethics and social conscience is a very broad problem, and, I may add, hardly new under the sun. That of course does not mean we ever should shrink from exposing it wherever and when we can.
There are no souls, metaphorical or otherwise. As Baldrick once said, “Irony is like goldy or silvery, only made of iron.”
People who troop into MBA programs or get legal training are often doing it because it has been a sure ticket for a clever-ish person to get a well-paying job (e.g. lobbyist), in the past. However, once the foundation of a society is undermined, this may become less common.
Very infrequently it is possible for a system to be changed from within. Never waste a good crisis. Repent, sinners!