In Kant’s view it is immoral to cheat on an exam. According to Kant things are immoral if you cannot make them into universal law. Cheating on an exam would be immoral according to Kant because you cannot make it universal law. If you did, then everyone would cheat on their test. Everyone would get perfect scores but what would that show. There would be no point to take a test your allowed to cheat on. Everyone would get the same grade and youd be stupid not to cheat. It is contradictory to make it universal law that everyone must cheat on their tests. Tests loose their value of determining how much a person has learned about a subject over a period of time. There would be no point in taking tests if cheating was universal law. Therefore, cheating as a universal law would not work and therefore cheating is immoral.

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