Some thoughts after Splitscreen:
Whoa, plagiarism being an addiction or mental illness is a strong take.
Is plagiarism mainly a bad thing in western culture? Suppose I believe ideas are not private property or cannot be possessed. Maybe I have laxer standards for intellectual property or writing. Do I still find plagiarism deplorable?
People talk about it like it's universally reviled, but it would seem to me it's a matter of perspective. I mean, I have been taught it's bad, sure. But it feels like a vestige of pre-Internet ethics that needn't apply in the modern age, particularly to the type of paraphrased plagiarism Filip was guilty of.
Whoa, plagiarism being an addiction or mental illness is a strong take.
Is plagiarism mainly a bad thing in western culture? Suppose I believe ideas are not private property or cannot be possessed. Maybe I have laxer standards for intellectual property or writing. Do I still find plagiarism deplorable?
People talk about it like it's universally reviled, but it would seem to me it's a matter of perspective. I mean, I have been taught it's bad, sure. But it feels like a vestige of pre-Internet ethics that needn't apply in the modern age, particularly to the type of paraphrased plagiarism Filip was guilty of.