Ethics Versus Practicality and a Sense of Self

"All things are lawful to me, but not all things are profitable; all things are lawful to me, but i will not be brought under the power of anything." 1 cor 6:12 That's a verse from the Bible, folks. How about that for freedom? Congresswoman Nancy says to us that the Congress will fight putting more troops in Iraq. What big troops you have says the people of Iraq...the better to eat you with, says Bush. The ethics. The ethics behind a paper writing service for high school and college students. www.junglepage.com. Say writing papers for said service is profitable? If all things are lawful to me, why then should I not do it? Ethics says no. Our parents say cheating is wrong and if we cheat the whole fabric of society collapses. Is it ethical to send more troops than we already have to Iraq? Just to shoot paintballs and tear gas into crowds of angry citizens? "But I will not be brought under the power of anything." Say we need more oil...is it ethical invade other countries that will provide us with more oil? In a battle of practicality versus ethics, practicality wins. Practicality says "yes." "Yes," I would write papers for a service that I know will aid other students in cheating. Why? I could use the money.
There is another reason why I wouldn't work for this service and that is a matter of professional honor to myself. Not ethics as taught by Sunday school or church that tells me not to stretch the truth, but a sense of self. A hope that my writing would not grace some professor's table as another's work. The idea that I could never claim my work as my own. Perhaps the same feeling that an ex-porn star would feel trying to reclaim pictures of her from the press. That her ideas, her very self was sold and could not be reclaimed. In magazines and print, usually the writer has their name, their label, in the margin of the page. They can claim this work as their own and put the work in their portfolio.
In other news, something I may have to put in my resume; I've applied at Micheal's and Hancock Fabrics. May they call me with all Godspeed, for I've just spent money I don't have on a cell phone usb cable and that .94 cents might just send me over the edge into the red zone. No-one wants to get caught in the red zone. Least of all extra troops.