Trying to help but is this wrong?

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A friend asked me if I could take an online class for him, bc he already has 5 classes and he needs help. I told him yea, and thought it would be nice to help. But, first off, it’s not an easy course, which i don’t even mind, but would this be wrong of me to do? I don’t want to do something that I think is good, but really is not ?
 
Of course it’s wrong. It’s lying; you are misrepresenting yourself as your friend. And if you complete any assignments or exams, it’s also cheating.
 
Sorry, I’m sure your intentions are great, but that doesn’t make it right. Doing so would be lying, claiming the work is your friend’s when it isn’t. Also, as a friend you should do what is best for him. In this case, he needs to do his own work so he can learn the material.

I would advise against it. You can offer to tutor him if you genuinely wish to help, but cheating is not a good idea.

God Bless
 
HNA444 said:
A friend asked me if I could take an online class for him, bc he already has 5 classes and he needs help. I told him yea, and thought it would be nice to help. But, first off, it’s not an easy course, which i don’t even mind, but would this be wrong of me to do? I don’t want to do something that I think is good, but really is not ?
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That would be academic dishonesty. Your friend is signed up for the class, and would not be completing the coursework, and yet would be passing off work that someone else did as his own. This is lying, and if you agree to do this, you’d be complicit in his lying as well. The consequences for something like this could be extremely severe–everything from failing the course to being dismissed from school, with a blotch on his record that will haunt him for years to come. It’s not worth it for either of you–at the very least because of the academic and possible job-related consequences to this, but also the fact that you imperil both your souls by engaging in this kind of a lie. I think you know what the right thing to do is. You’re in my prayers

-ACEGC
 
it would be wrong if your friend doesn’t learn the material and at some point he needs to use what he didn’t learn… and loses everything because of it… but that would fall on him not you… but if i were in your boat i would tell him to do it himself… it is CHEATING which is lying which is a sin… and you are sinning as well by lying with him/for him…
 
HNA444: It sounds wrong and it is cheating. If you get caught, the ramifications for you and your friend could be great. I pray and hope that you help your friend in other ways. Perhaps by tutoring him or explaining the material he does not understand to him.
 
Hello there,

Your thread reminded me of something that happened to me in England when I was 19 years old. A friend who was illiterate asked me to write a letter for him to his girlfriend. I felt it was a bad idea at the time but he persisted and I finally agreed. Trouble is, the girl got to like these letters very much, and though I kept telling him he would have to come clean and eventually tell her I’m not sure if he ever did because I returned home to Ireland shortly afterwards. I thought about these things on occasions especially having first arrived home, and I wasn’t too pleased with myself at all. I felt I had cheated and deceived that girl especially, and I didn’t do him much good either, not long term anyway. I hate all forms of deceit even more so today, and would never put my name to anything like that again.

Leviticus 19:11
Eddy Barry
 
You are all right, and I actually told my friend I couldn’t right after I sent this post, because I thought about it and it is wrong. Thank you all for your (name removed by moderator)ut, and thank you Steady Eddy for that story.
 
HNA444 said:
You are all right, and I actually told my friend I couldn’t right after I sent this post, because I thought about it and it is wrong. Thank you all for your (name removed by moderator)ut, and thank you Steady Eddy for that story.
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This shows the person’s character. Be cautious in the future.
 
Steady_Eddy said:
Hello there,

Your thread reminded me of something that happened to me in England when I was 19 years old. A friend who was illiterate asked me to write a letter for him to his girlfriend. I felt it was a bad idea at the time but he persisted and I finally agreed. Trouble is, the girl got to like these letters very much, and though I kept telling him he would have to come clean and eventually tell her I’m not sure if he ever did because I returned home to Ireland shortly afterwards. I thought about these things on occasions especially having first arrived home, and I wasn’t too pleased with myself at all. I felt I had cheated and deceived that girl especially, and I didn’t do him much good either, not long term anyway. I hate all forms of deceit even more so today, and would never put my name to anything like that again.

Leviticus 19:11
Eddy Barry
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If I remember correctly that is the plot of Cyrano de Bergerac 😃
 
HNA444 said:
Turns out, this guy is very shady and manipulative. I don’t understand why I always have bad friends enter my life 😦
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These people are everywhere, but they do look for victims. Look for this book in your library, and read it ASAP.

Boundaries

It will help you notice when people are violating your personal and moral boundaries, and give you the choice of stopping them straight away. Don’t let them get far enough into your life to try and ask you for this type of “favor.”
 
Joe_Kelley said:
If I remember correctly that is the plot of Cyrano de Bergerac 😃
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Hello there,

My curiosity finally got the better of me, and I had to Google the words ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ I know now it’s a film you were referring to, and yes there are some similarities, though the friend I was talking about was illiterate, he already knew the girl, and I myself never met her at all. :crying
 
Joe_Kelley said:
If I remember correctly that is the plot of Cyrano de Bergerac 😃
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Hello there,

My curiosity finally got the better of me, and I had to Google the words ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ I know now it’s a film you were referring to, and yes there are some similarities, though the friend I was talking about was illiterate, he already knew the girl, and I myself never met her at all.
 
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