What is it with all the commenters slating Neal Kushner for the well-deserved slapdown he issued to the cheat who offered to pay him for his help on her homework? Methinks there are a lot of people out there who've done the same, otherwise I just don't get the identification with the witless, lazy* "Laura K. P..." of Lewis University, who not only went out of her way to make a dishonest proposal to someone she'd never met, but then went on to compound her base behavior by welshing on the payment she'd promised for the "help." To hear some of Kushner's critics tell it, what we have here is some naif using questionable means to do a good deed, rather than a lying, cynical cheat who's probably done this sort of thing many times before, with full awareness that what she was doing was wrong (otherwise, why the strenuous efforts on her part to veil her identity?)
| wouldn't have had the energy to execute such an elaborate sting myself, but given that Neal Kushner did, I actually think he was far too kind to Ms. P - in fact, he's a big softy! I get my own fair share of solicitations for "assistance" thanks to this blog, and if Kushner's prank makes all the lazy "students" out there think twice before writing complete strangers to ask them to do their work for them, I say it will have been very much a good thing.
*How slothful do you have to be to be incapable of cranking out 5 bloody pages on Hinduism? The irony is that this dimwit probably spent more effort getting someone to do her assignment for her than it would have taken her to do it herself.
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