According to the US Constitution, anyone has the right to express himself or herself in a free way, a right referred to as a "freedom of speech." How the product of custom essay writing is used really depends not on the author, but on the person using it.
Whereas writing is not criminal or unfair in anyway, cheating is something that should be questioned. As most people well know, cheating in school has always been a way of life for some students who need to survive through their final exams. Not everyone is that "lazy," of course, because most students have been doing their own homework. Therefore, the question is: If a student gets help in writing his or her essay, should that be considered fair work or plagiarism?
This is a complex question, and the answer is somewhere in the middle of the two extremes. It would be silly to believe that the student's work is not plagiarized ONLY because s/he performed 100% of the work. The reason for that is simple - today, it is not possible to separate "allowed" from "not allowed" materials that are used during the process of doing homework. These days, a student who needs to research a subject has a wide range of choices to do so: the library, the Internet, or... his/her peers. If a student reads a book in a library and learns some important facts without actually remembering which particular book s/he took the necessary information from, and then commits the facts to an essay - would that be considered a plagiarism? From a formal viewpoint - it should be treated as a "crime." In reality, however, such scenario would probably never happen because otherwise education would be impossible. Similarly, if a student talks about a possible solution to the math problem with his/her student peer during a school break, would that still be considered "too much assistance" in the professor's eyes? Again, it's doubtful.
So, why are those students who seek help from custom writing or editing services oftentimes regarded as those who "commit plagiarism?" Maybe, it is so because the teachers are inclined to think that paid help should be treated as a worse "crime" than a non-profit assistance. But do the teachers teach for free? Or maybe, this crime idea comes from a conviction that paying for writing help is for students a way to receive a custom paper without any time or effort contribution. Actually, neither argument seems to make much sense as most students who "help" one another don't really do it for free; instead, they do barter trade of their knowledge and skills. As for "no contribution," it's quite the opposite since the money paid for the service must have been worked for. Moreover, purchasing a writing service does not mean that the student doing so is unable to compose a comparable essay on his/her own.
Since purchasing of writing/editing services is an ambiguous concept and could be argued either way, it is reasonable to conclude that the concept is based simply on the economic theory of opportunity cost. Students paying for custom essay writing services assess that their cost to make money to pay is lesser than their cost to do the writing on their own. Thus, it is education at work.
