The Internet, as it is today - is an inanimate object. It has no body, mind, spirit or soul. The only 'life' it has, is from its users. This being said, who could honestly believe that the Internet encourages anything - let alone, cheating.

To prove my point - go to your computer and get on the Internet. Now wait. What is it doing? What is it saying? Is it whispering sweet nothings in your ears? Or to your eyes? Is it talking of sweet caress or - ahem, pointed bodily movements? It has nothing to say that someone - human - isn't keying in on the other side. Without the 'people' to move it - the Internet just sits there. It waits for you, to tell it what to transmit - to someone on the other end.

The truth is, people encourage cheating. People encourage people to - 'take it off' the Internet. People encourage people to - 'meet' in person. People encourage people to - 'take it off and share it with them.' This has nothing to do with the Internet.

Cheating is a human character flaw. The Internet is not human.

The Internet is a black hole. It is a nothing without the use of people. If people didn't use it - it would go away. Cheating wouldn't go away. Cheating was here before the Internet and, will exist long after the Internet of today has, faded into history books of - how things 'used to be.'

The truth is that, the Internet cannot encourage cheating. It has no emotions, feelings, or personality. The Internet is not human - some people only wished it was so, they would have someone to blame for their own character flaws.

It is so much easier to blame the Internet than - for cheaters - to admit they are at fault. The Internet does not encourage cheating - people do that.

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