Why Plagiarism Is Wrong

Plagiarism is the act of stealing someone else’s work or ideas and redistributing them as one’s own. It is considered as a crime; one can be charged or filed with a case for plagiarizing someone else’s proprietary compositions and ideas. In this society, intentional literary theft is not permissible. When one is caught pilfering someone else’s rights, he may be compelled to deal with fines and be incarcerated for doing so. Plagiarism is a severe offense. It is unfavorable, destructive, inimical, and detrimental to inventiveness. In plagiarism, one does not only breach the law, one also infringes another person’s privacy and right to exclusivity. One’s work is his own possession and no one has the right to extract that off from him. One’s time and effort in devising his personal masterpiece is put to waste; his rights, privacy, and ownership violated all because of someone else’s selfishness and indifference towards other people.

When one lacks the ability to form his unique idea, he will then be compelled to snatch someone else’s and claim it as his own. Thus, when one has the faculty to think and generate his own concepts and visions, then, plagiarism will not be a problem. If everyone just had the capability to think creatively and write extraordinarily, then, all works would be original and plagiarism would not be a complication.

The invention of “cut and paste” ushered us into an era where people have become less inventive and original with their compositions and handiworks. Everyone has been propelled to the thought that creating a masterpiece only takes three clicks: right click, copy, and paste. Because of “cut and paste,” one is no longer motivated to think critically about his creations. One has forgotten that for once, he thought about his compositions deliberately, and for once, he had the capability to go beyond what he can