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Re: Ethics 101: To re-use or not to re-use?

As a mentor, I am here to teach these students far more than just robotics. I am here to teach about life.

As such, how can I teach them that it is OK to break a rule just because it is inconvienient, and unenforceable. To do so would be teaching them the wrong things.


This question is not about writing code. It's about teaching morals, eithics, and gracious professionalism.

Can people reuse code? YES. Will they get caught? Probably not. If we show them that breaking the rules (and reusing code) is OK, what have they learned? That society does not expect them to follow the rules, and when inconvienient it's OK to break them.

Is this what we really want to teach them?

And where does that put those teams that play fair?

And once we head down that slippery slope, where do we stop?
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