Plagiarism: An Act of Murder
Plagiarism is the act of of stealing and publishing the materials of other authors without their consent, this includes their expressions, ideas, concepts, and their original work in general.
Plagiarism is applicable to all medium, in writing you can steal sentences, phrases, or maybe even a whole paragraph. In photography you can publish photos that aren't even yours and label them as your own, in film you can take scenes from other films without the filmmaker's consent or worse you can publish a whole movie and label yourself as its filmmaker. In painting, drawing and other forms of visual arts, the same thing goes, you can take an artwork and wrongfully label yourself as its maker.
That is plagiarism. Stealing, publishing, then killing.
Maybe your asking, why killing? Don't worry, I'm going to explain.
You see, when you plagiarize you don't just steal other people's work them publish them without their consent, you're also doing something to yourself, in fact something worse.
You're killing your creativity.
By just stealing the works of others, you're losing the effort to make to make your own content, you're not taking the time to craft your own masterpiece, you're not using you're own talents, thus you are killing your own creativity.
Creativity is the phenomenon whereby new and imaginative ideas are formed. It is within all of us, it's one of the qualities that make each of us unique. So when you plagiarize, you also kill the opportunity for something new to come in to this world.
Plagiarism is a crime, it is an academic dishonesty, and a serious ethical offense and when you plagiarize, you're not only a thief, but also a killer. Plagiarism is all around us, it can be done by anyone, and you might even be doing it right now without you realizing. But it's not too late.
Stop plagiarism, stop the killings, and together we can prevent the extinction of creativity.
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