Ethics Case Study: Best-selling teenage author admits lifting parts of novel - The Herald

This is an excellent case study for those of us who teach ethics in our classes. I will be using it in my blog this week.

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The Herald - 1 hour ago
A teenage writer educated in Scotland last night admitted that passages in her best-selling debut novel had been borrowed from another book.

Here is my question, what should be the consequences? If there are none, it will reinforce to our children that the ends justifies the means.