(November 9, 2009 at 9:36 am)Dotard Wrote: Accusations of plagiarism does not detract from the points made.
Accusations of plagiarism actually piss me off. Sometimes.
If I had never heard the phrase "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." and just came up with it within my own mind, then state it there is always that one ass who will try to discredit the point merely by accusing me of plagiarism or not giving credit to someone in the past who happened to think of the same thing and got it published somewhere.
Just because you got a phrase or an idea published does not mean no one else can come up with that same idea or phrase on their own. Hell, we don't know for a fact the person accredited with it didn't hear it from some unpublished person and plagiarised the idea.
Two people having a simular or same idea does not automatically mean one plagiarised it from the other.
Accusation of, or blatent, plagiarism does not discredit any points made.
I second that
"We need not a God; just another human being to give life a meaning. For people are truly all people have" author unknown
