Sure, but as a general rule the carrot is a better incentive than the stick.

As someone who only cheated in one class because the professor was a lazy fuck and assigned 5 hours worth of problems for a 1 hour exam with no regard to whether it was completable, I agree. The whole class cheated, because they had to. We actually all knew the material really well because distributing that material across 20 students was still iffy on time.

He's dead now, the lazy fuck. Fuck you Dr. Aung.

I may be dumb, but to clarify: they were assumed cheating because the word was fake, and the only reason for so many duplicated fake answers would be if they shared a faulty answer sheet. Right?

Still, cheating to some extent exists everywhere. This just weeds out the real lazy or stupid cheaters. Which is also some kind of quality check, I guess.

To cheat properly, I've has to be a bit clever and shrewd, which is a valuable character trait. Maybe not the most moral one, but real life isn't all moral either. 🤷‍♂️

Sometimes the best and most efficient solutions are created by just cleverly combining the work of others.

I guess that would harm you if the class is graded on a curve. I'm not saying they shouldn't be caught and penalized, only that expulsion from the university is a harsh penalty. Automatic failure of the class would hurt plenty, without utterly destroying someone's life.

Here's the real answer for based:

"Based" (corruption of base head - from someone who smokes base - street name for crack cocaine) was popular as an insult in rap / African American circles in the early 00s

Rapper Lil B got called it and decided on a whim to pretend the meaning was changed to mean something positive, started using it in this way, it caught on - mostly through the new York scene and its attendant twitter following

As all slang does in the last ~100-150 years, passed from black people to everyone.

Brain pilled is a reference to The Matrix f/t Keanu Reeves in which Morpheus - whose namesake is the God of dreams - offers to wake up Neo from his fake reality by taking the red pill - leading to the phrase "red pilled" meaning (a right wing variant of) "woke." 

Over time [x]-pilled became slang like how Watergate/ [x]-gate became a suffix to imply an imbrolglio.

Can be real fun though and often you get deeper insight into the subject than just attending a class or gain valuable connections into the institute.

It’s just not for teaching, lmao.

Exactly. The "Ugh, these annoying students are keeping me from doing something useful" is very strong with some of them.

There's no evidence that those who cheated were already going to.

The prof said it was only suspected that students were cheating, and instead of investigating and collecting evidence, he fabricated evidence through his own encouragement of the same crime he seeks to denounce.