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I think one of my favorite comments on why everyone should just let the whole CC plagiarism thing die is this one from fearsclave:
I view plagiarism as something that gentlemen do not do. Like get caught in flagrante with the Royal Welch Fusiliers' goat.
Gentlemen also do not start screaming at length about what Mr. X was found doing with said goat, and vindictively and obsessively cataloging every single incident where Mr. X was seen in public with a barnyard animal in the vicinity, and accusing them, on the flimsiest evidence, of cheating at cards, backing out of duels, and adulterating the Archbishop of York's claret with arsenic. Doing so displays character flaws worse than Mr. X's little predilection for Royal Goats.
Which. Um. Okay.
So gentlemen don't plagiarize or engage in bestiality, but when they do, other gentlemen never say anything like, "I daresay old chap, I think plagiarism's not really cricket. Our kind don't practice that sort of thing. Don't you think you should own up to it, you know, make a clean breast of it? Oh, and please stop handling my dog in such a manner. Sir. Sir! I mean really, let's stop making such a mess of things, old boy!", because discussing plagiarism and bestiality is much much worse than actually practicing it.
(I wonder if gentlemen also get a free pass on rape, murder and pedophilia, or if it's only bestiality and plagiarism that are just trifling oversights.)
Lesson learned: If a gentleman breaks into another gentleman's home, and steals his belongings and touches his pets in bad places, it's all water under the bridge! No big deal, gentlemen never would discuss that sort of thing. Now, can someone give me the home addresses of these fandom gentlepeople? I've got some belongings I'd like to borrow.*
Also, evidently, gentlemen don't know how to read if they think people saying, "Hey, that Cassie Claire's a plagiarist" also means everyone is running around accusing her of other crimes. Which I've seen no evidence of. I'd ask gentlemen to point it out, but like I said, gentlemen cannot read. Which is probably why plagiarism doesn't bother them.
*For the humor impaired among us, an obvious joke. I do not plan to embark on a crime spree.
fearsclave:I view plagiarism as something that gentlemen do not do. Like get caught in flagrante with the Royal Welch Fusiliers' goat.
Gentlemen also do not start screaming at length about what Mr. X was found doing with said goat, and vindictively and obsessively cataloging every single incident where Mr. X was seen in public with a barnyard animal in the vicinity, and accusing them, on the flimsiest evidence, of cheating at cards, backing out of duels, and adulterating the Archbishop of York's claret with arsenic. Doing so displays character flaws worse than Mr. X's little predilection for Royal Goats.
Which. Um. Okay.
So gentlemen don't plagiarize or engage in bestiality, but when they do, other gentlemen never say anything like, "I daresay old chap, I think plagiarism's not really cricket. Our kind don't practice that sort of thing. Don't you think you should own up to it, you know, make a clean breast of it? Oh, and please stop handling my dog in such a manner. Sir. Sir! I mean really, let's stop making such a mess of things, old boy!", because discussing plagiarism and bestiality is much much worse than actually practicing it.
(I wonder if gentlemen also get a free pass on rape, murder and pedophilia, or if it's only bestiality and plagiarism that are just trifling oversights.)
Lesson learned: If a gentleman breaks into another gentleman's home, and steals his belongings and touches his pets in bad places, it's all water under the bridge! No big deal, gentlemen never would discuss that sort of thing. Now, can someone give me the home addresses of these fandom gentlepeople? I've got some belongings I'd like to borrow.*
Also, evidently, gentlemen don't know how to read if they think people saying, "Hey, that Cassie Claire's a plagiarist" also means everyone is running around accusing her of other crimes. Which I've seen no evidence of. I'd ask gentlemen to point it out, but like I said, gentlemen cannot read. Which is probably why plagiarism doesn't bother them.
*For the humor impaired among us, an obvious joke. I do not plan to embark on a crime spree.
