Should I tell the truth?

[Academic]

To an extent I agree with you but I don't know, but this goes in all of the time, I have never been party to this ever in my life I have never in my life cheated academically. The way I am seeing it I didn't ask him to put the paper up on the projector screen I genuinely had a question about the exam and he just did this. As for working hard I have sacrificed so much out of my life to do my degree and I am the type of student who goes in at 7am in the morning to revise and do work till about 2pm everyday when my lectures happen. I haven't willingly asked for this to happen I haven't stolen an exam paper then used it, it was up on the projector. I have always put my studies in front of everything in my life, when my cousin passed away last year I didn't even go to the funeral so I could do an exam which I couldn't have been excused for because the university deemed it unnecessary. Although I agree with your principles I am not the paragon of justice and I honestly think I will have to turn a blind eye to this, I cannot risk my academic career for the silliness of my lecturer.

So, you're doing all this work but you're happy for degrees to be awarded for doing little work and not knowing your subject? You'll concede it's a terrible thing but make an exception because it's you that's involved?

You are behaving unethically, you are cheating in exams, you are being dishonest. It's a good job you're so special because if you weren't I'd have to say you're a moral vacuum, unworthy to recieve a degree because you're happy to see the currency devalued to get one. No amount of special pleading will excuse that.

Your best hope is that what you're involved in doesn't leak out. If it does, you'll be unemployable and deservedly so. This lecturer has in all likelyhood done this before and will do it again, it will come out eventually.

Don't wait for a spine donor, do the right thing now.