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Originally Posted by Dr. Casey
Of course not, and I'd be favor of some kind of penalty in situations where the plagiarism is enough to hamper one's understanding of the material they're supposed to learn. Due to the general zero tolerance policy against plagiarism and the ease with which teachers can now detect such copied material, though, the usual stories seem to be more along the lines 'A Computer Sciences major got kicked out during the third year of his Bachelor's program because he copied three sentences in an essay about Huck Finn.' Plagiarism is a crime that's punished quite brutally to serve as a deterrent, but in many of the individual cases I don't think the punishment fits the crime. ...
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Many of the 'zero tolerance' policies are asinine. Its like it never occurred to these drones that thoughts and phrases could re-invented independently all the time. Most major discoveries are 'race-conditions' rather than single bits of brilliance.