I have the same question as another poster: What kind of cheating?
Side note: Cheating also, always involves lying. And lying is a form of stealing. (That is my personal view.) Have you thought through this “cheating” you refer too in these terms?
Your question essentially is if cheating is ok in certain specific circumstances. All I can say, and the church emphatically affirms this, is the ends never justify the means.
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