Cheating Ethics

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"When someone tipped off a San Diego State University instructor that one of his classes was getting the answer keys to his quizzes from classes held earlier in the day, he tested the student's honesty by scrambling the questions. A full third of the students simply wrote the answers from the pirated test key. Some of the dishonest students, who subsequently flunked the course, said that the instructor should have shared the blame because giving the same test to different classes was 'negligent and stupid'. Apparently, they thought they didn't have a choice but to cheat since the teacher didn't make it impossible for them to do so. What was the course? Business ethics." (from Understanding Canadian Business, 5th Edition, by Nickels et al.)