Don't ya just have to wonder ( Archived) (24)

Don't ya just have to wonder where all these cut and paste pieces of lengthy, oh so

exhausting, treasured, close to the heart, information from that wonderful World Wide

Web GOES TO at the close of the day? What happens to all this virtual information? I

mean....Give us a break! Why is it so typical of us to have to prove our point so strongly

that we can't come up with our OWN words to state things. It said THIS or he said

THAT, or blah, blah, blah. cut-paste, cut-paste. Now, if I really WAS interested in

getting another's view besides yours, I would go on that international web freeway and

find out for myself, instead of, let's be honest, folks, rolling straight through all of that *&).

What I'm really interested in -- not that anyone really cares --is, what your very own

opinion is.

Now, I've been known to do this, as well, from time to time... (but I still don't like it.)

You already know the answer dusty.

Ego.

Sometimes you can make the strongest arguments possible and it doesn't matter...people won't believe it unless your opinion is backed up my some sort of outside proof....anyway that's what a good debate is all about...opinion with concrete facts to back it up!!!!!

I am old & senile, can just barely read. One of my neighbors 9 yeqar old grandkids taught me to cut and paste and then wrote out the instructions and taped them to my desk just in case...

I only had one original thought, it took me to a great place over 26 years ago....

To be fair we are all guilty of this at one point or another in our lives. In defense I would like to say that sometimes what we wish to express has already been done by someone else, so much more eloquently and thoroughly than we could possibly manifest within our own simple words.
Of course there are always those so lazy or inept that they try to impress others by their virtual collections of responses to the few ideals they hold close to.
When an opinion is required it is responsible to have some form or ability to fabricate the answers from within our own ideology.
The best resort to me when a cut paste scenario is used is to add to it in a following notation, expressing how it impacts the general tone or subject that it was derived of.

Again perhaps some have no ability to communicate what they feel as they are socially crippled or not up to what they perceive as the intellectual quotient required, and out of fear they copy someone else's words to hide behind. It is also a likely safety net to deflect any inconsistency through the plagiarised report as it is not theirs if and when it falls apart under further scrutiny.

JMO

hahaha

hear ya.

To bad some of the newbies don't....

I know, only so much one can do and then...

let go.