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Who cares about plagiarism?
- No one in the real (or business) world cares about plagiarism.
- Everyone does it—look at Napster.
- Famous, great people have plagiarized—like Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Aren't there works that blend fiction and fact, and isn't that a type of lying?
- Only the professor is going to read this.
- I'm not making money from this that the author(s) could, so I'm not hurting the author(s) in any material way.
- The only reason academics use citations is because it's a game they use to impress each other. Why should I play that game?
- I'm from a different country (or culture).
- I've always written papers like this, and no teacher has ever complained.
- My teacher in (subject or school here) taught me to write this way.
- Copying is necessary to survival in school.
- Why get so huffy? It was only a draft! (specific to my undergraduate class)