...which I'm sure many of us (including me) have done before.
What does this even mean? Are you informing me that there are people who have not been banned because they did not hack? Real interesting fact right there.
Your post was just not helpful at all, telling someone not to hack isn't going to change anyone's ideals. Just seems like you're salty and forcing your ideals upon someone. The answer he needs is not to be dumb and use free copy and paste hacks. Teach him how to learn, not shut down what he's been working towards for a while.