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alephnerd 3 hours ago

You'd hope, but humans are humans - even if they attend an Ivy.

Some individuals have heady thoughts and morals like you mentioned. Others are using it as a checkbox.

JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> humans are humans - even if they attend an Ivy

I specifically called out two non-Ivy examples. Humans are humans. And one of those capacities is for behaving with honor. The enemy of honor, it turns out, isn't dishonor, but cynicism. (It isn't surprising that the dominant emotion on a Silicon Valley board towards an honor system is scorn.)

alephnerd 2 hours ago | parent [-]

No argument there. Tbf given my professional and personal background, I automatically assume the worst in all people so even though I never abused honor codes (and honestly never had the need to anyhow because I liked the classes I took with one as they tend to be the kinds of classes where professors and teacher staff are the most engaged) I think it is almost impossible to enforce one in classes beyond 30 students, because anonymity does beget some amount of bad behavior.