I need help on a point of view on a book!!

[Basil]

someone who is willing to `help' shouldn't be said to be `in the wrong' for doing so. Some people get enough satisfaction posting to these questions for their own benefit, not necessarily to help someone else `cheat' or be `intellectually lazy'.

Let me state right away that I am not questioning the motives of any forum member who chooses to help these people. I think their willingness to help others is an admirable quality and it is to their credit that they possess such a trait.

But can't we admit that some of these requests for help are unreasonable? Should we answer every question that gets posted?

I think not. It's a question of degree. We are all cognizant homo sapiens here, and I think we should consider whether or not a request is a valid, reasonable request for assistance--or simply someone who didn't do their homework, and is seeking an easy out.

And yes, I know that I can ignore these threads--I can, and I have. But I think what bothers some of us is that it violates our sense of fair play. Is it fair to these people's classmates (who presumably have done the work themselves) to simply provide these slackers with the answers? Can't we at least force them to go buy the Cliff Notes?

I would LOVE to help someone with a valid request for help, but I haven't seen one yet . . .

[Logos]

Sure, it's that `agree to disagree' thing where dealing with such subjective matter as asking for help, and `is it the ethical thing to do?' and all that, but when topics like this happen to degenerate into flames/harassment etc. that's when I'd like people to just ignore it.

But can't we admit that some of these requests for help are unreasonable? Should we answer every question that gets posted?

[subterranean]

Let me state right away that I am not questioning the motives of any forum member who chooses to help these people. I think their willingness to help others is an admirable quality and it is to their credit that they possess such a trait.

But can't we admit that some of these requests for help are unreasonable? Should we answer every question that gets posted?

I think not. It's a question of degree. We are all cognizant homo sapiens here, and I think we should consider whether or not a request is a valid, reasonable request for assistance--or simply someone who didn't do their homework, and is seeking an easy out.

And yes, I know that I can ignore these threads--I can, and I have. But I think what bothers some of us is that it violates our sense of fair play. Is it fair to these people's classmates (who presumably have done the work themselves) to simply provide these slackers with the answers? Can't we at least force them to go buy the Cliff Notes?

I would LOVE to help someone with a valid request for help, but I haven't seen one yet . . .

Seconded yours Basil and I think helping the reasonable ones with answers also helping them to increase their foolishness and ignorace.