It also has to do with some of us feeling uncomfortable with inflicting a punishment on someone when it wasn't necessarily our business to get involved with. If they get caught cheating, then okay, but I don't want to be a part of it.
I honestly have a hard time following your post. To clarify, comparing the safety of patients to cheating in a pre-med course is banking on a logical fallacy. The whole "you let someone cheat, therefore you'll let someone endanger a patient", is total garbage that doesn't hold up logically. My response to
@efle wasn't banking on a logical fallacy lol it was a response to the notion that the severity of crime is a measuring stick for how wrong an action is. I mean ffs, slaves used to get their hands chopped off for learning to read. Do we really think that it makes sense to use the punishment inflicted as a means to measure the crime's severity? No. More importantly, we don't need to, because we can have a logical discussion about the ethics here and determine for ourselves if we agree/disagree with the severity of the punishment.
Pretty sure he's a troll because he always makes idiotic posts like that. Anyway, if it's a parking lot full of open spaces then yeah idc if someone parks there without a pass. But, if the lot is reserved for permits and someone w/ a fake permit takes a spot from someone else w/ a legitimate permit, then I absolutely mind. Literally yesterday someone took my parking spot near the hospital so he could move his kid out of the dorm and I had no problem reporting him to get his car moved (he wasn't ticketed, just told to move of he would be). The space was permit-only for hospital employees and this guy just posted up there, in the last spot, for convenience. I had a patient to see and needed the spot, so I didn't feel bad about getting him to move. However, if there was another spot open then I wouldn't have cared.