Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 15, 2013

It does seem wrong dosent it.

I had this one posted in my office for a long time. I do have to point out that not acting is also a decision, in this case in favor of not cheating.

You really left the problem unsolved Calvin.

Anyone want to go to a doctor who cheated through med school?

They should most this one in locker rooms.

Not cheat on an Ethic test.

Moral of the story boys and girls is when locked into an ethical debate let time save the day.

…or get elected to public office, which is what most seem to settle for.

A kid that age is given an ethics test?

like every where cheat on test….

“. . . what he told Hobbs . . . . "

Precisely my thought, too.But, by the time he had it figured out, he wouldn’t have had time to write it down.-Such is life.

Calvin is a born genius with that analysis…

Calvin’s ethics test turned out to be a test of his ethics.

Here’s an early one from 1986 that was rerun a couple of years ago, during the reruns of the reruns from Bill Watterson’s first sabbatical. The rerun of his second sabbatical begins next April, so we will be reading reruns of reruns next year from April through December. Then in 2015 we go through the final year of Calvin and Hobbes, from 1995.Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (June 19, 1986)

Click here: Dilbert (May 30, 1995)

Click here: Pearls Before Swine (December 17, 2010)Click here: Wizard of Id (October 8, 2008)Click here: Ziggy (February 28, 2002)Click here: Peanuts (May 23, 1962)

we all cheat. weight, money, love, appearances, test scores, games, etc… we even cover up the cheating.

I took that course in university, not grade school. I’m sure all the executives of the fortune 500 and goverment have, too. It doesn’t seemed to have done much to guide their behaviour in business and government.

I doubt ethics is taught in most public scholls at any level. Too much emphasis on standardized testing tied to funding, which, in turn, gets tied to teacher/administrator bonuses. Would be nice if kids could get taught life skills, critical thinking, and ethics first. One of my favorite movie qutes is from Peggy Sue Got Married, when the 42-year old Peggy Sue time travels back to high scholl and tells her math teacher, " I happen to know that in the future I will never have any use for algebra!”

I’m printing this out for my wife to post on her classroom door: among other college courses, she teaches business ethics!

hmm

Well done Calvin. I give you 65% on your Ethics test. If you had doodled your thoughts on your paper I would have given you a distinction.

Calvin; a born diplomat.

You’re a good kid, Calvin.

Today starts the After of the Before & After. Don’t ask.

If he had spent as much time studying for the test as he did debating whether to cheat or not, he would have aced the test.

Calvin, if you would spend as much time studying as you do contemplating, maybe you would do better…………………..on the other hand…………………………..

I see Omnius is back trolling again.

Wait. What? He’s giving a sophisticated discourse on ethics and yet he turns in a blank paper on an ethics test?

once again proving that this strip was one of the all time greats and in a class by itself.

One thoughtful fellow, that Calvin.

I figured it out by the 3rd grade – when you cheat, you are only cheating yourself. of course I was very bored in school, teachers taught to the test, all you had to do was pay attention in class the first time it was taught – don’t worry, teacher will go over and over it if you miss it.

Cheating is OK… As long as you never get caught!

LOL xxx

I can envision a situation where the test itself is a load of PC huey. A highly competent engineer might decide to cheat on the PC test for a government job, get the job, do excellent work, then in a few years, his cheating is discovered and he is fired. But, the remaining civil engineers, who got straight As in political correctness, couldn’t design a safe bridge to save their life. The fired engineer tries to warn people that the new bridge design is unstable, but no one listens because he is a cheater. Finally, the story ends as the bridge collapses with tragic loss of life, and the engineer (who knew better that to be any where near it) watches the dust and smoke from a distance and ponders the consequences of his choice.

Who starts a sentence with “anymore”?

I have seen pictures from Colorado today, horrible! Poor people!

Is it a he or a she?

But if it was blank, he still failed lol

So if he didn’t cheat even if it would have gotten a better score, did he then (in a way) pass a test of ethics?

Think of how much costs have gone up because of security expenses. We must protect ourselves from dishonesty and criminal behavior.

bluskies said, less than a minute ago

@bhinkle

While I agree with your opinion of the worth of Omnius’ posts, I disagree strongly with your solution. “flagging” a comment is a form of censorship, and should be reserved for comments containing language that is inapproprate in a public forum, not simply ones we disagree with. We claim to support freedom of speech; rather than flagging his/her comments, simply allow the inane ranting to remain and ignore it. Commenting on the comments simply feeds the weeds and makes them grow, and flagging denies him/her the right to prove his/her intelligence level.

I work as a teacher. I had a principal who had no principles. No kidding. I had to quit before I was fired. I had principles. Weird. My students emailed me for 4 years after asking for my help in all classes, and I obliged; it drove the principal nuts.

I think Calvin should pass his ethics subject.

Ethics test in the first grade? Doesn’t that consist of forming a straight line to go to the bathroom and not “taking cuts?”

He should have written his thoughts on the paper. For an elementary student taking ethics, these kind of machinations might have honestly earned him something.

Ha-ha! Great punch line! Now lighten up, it’s a comic strip.

I agree: write down your quandry. At least you are doing ethics and being honest. Were I the teacher, I’d offer some credit for that.

Cheat to win or just study. What are the other choices? peeks Ok, Cheat to win.

LOL. How do you study for an ethics test? That sounds like trying to study for a blood test.