Shakespeare had a source for Hamlet.
Trump is president and ruining the world... it is not the time to complain about plagiarism.
It is not possible to be totally original. Everything has already been said / thought. Nihil novum sub sole.
Nobody cares anywhere.
It's not plagiarism if the source is anonymous, in the public domain...
There are only so many plots anyway...
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I haven't seen anybody make the argument#2 on this list, but all the rest of them have been tried on me by students who plagiarized. It stuns me that people can't just admit they made this error in judgment and just move on.
The woman who is being accused here tweeted yesterday or the day before: with all the apocalyptical things in the world why are people fighting poetry wars?
Priceless.
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