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<p>You have en extremely biased example of one in one field. What your former teacher did was inexcusable and its why most universities have panels that investigate incidents of plagarism rather than leaving it up to students.</p>
<p>My attitude about the OPs situation is based on reading student papers, seeing the extent and ability of plagarism among students, and reading intellectual property in my field for more than two decades (in a given week I might read 20 papers, and work closely with 7 graduate students). I have a strong basis to know what is extremely improbable for students writing in my field (and I’m saying the situation the OP describes makes no sense as a reasonable possibility). It has nothing to do with my ‘bad intentions’ and I would just send it to the panel to investigate.</p>
<p>My attitude about cheating and plagarism is actually well intentioned: I am looking out for keeping the system fair for the vast majority of students with integrity and hard work who shouldn’t have to compete against cheats. Nor do I want cheats going forward in the world thinking this is the way it should operate. We have enough such people in positions of authority, we do not need more.
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