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lacewise · 11 months ago

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I have seen a bunch of plagiarism scandals where professional writers and/or experts in the associated field have defended the plagiarist. At length. Doubling, tripling, quadrupling down and laughing at the people who called out their lack of ethics.

Now, ~suddenly~, even ~miraculously~, they have a problem with it. Sure. That makes sense.

#a deeply held ethical problem #suuuure #I mean this is pretty blatantly to avoid people looking into their work and their prior beliefs #which have suddenly gotten v v inconvenient!#(their prior beliefs were [and this is easy to prove] only unlikeable nerds care about plagiarism!!)#(cool people [like them] think all writing ideas are open source!!! no matter what)#(& ethics were never meant to apply to them!!!)#off topic #not fiber arts #this is so incredibly cynical #I’m upset bc I’m pretty sure it’ll work #ethics classes are required in a lot of programs #so it’s not as if they can claim they didn’t know anything about it #they just didn’t care #and think people (mainly I’m assuming them and their friends) should get away with it #and we should talk about how that led to the environment where these scandals are pretty continuously happening #with few marks on people’s reputations even if they’re forced to switch career paths #& them complaining what a shame it is #any consequences are left at all #anyway thanks to hbomberguy for forcing these people to care for a single moment in time #nothing else did it

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