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[quote=Anonymous]This reminds me of the difference between a "small action" and an "action with a small impact".

People are often excused for small actions with large impact, like DUI or sexual harassment and assault, or various kinds of negligence. People think "it's an easy mistake to make, so it shouldn't have a major impact on the offender.

What's important to acknowledge is that actions have impact on other people.

This instance of plagiarism isn't as bad as a rape or leacit your baby in a hot car, but it's still wrong, and a person of integrity should own up to that. 
No one was deeply harmed by this, not the original author of the tutorial, nor the readers the journal, nor someone spending their time writing their own introduction to their own paper instead of doing more research.

But it makes academia a little dirtier and less fair. And the reaction matter more than the act. Does one respond by trying to clean up, apologize, and make amends, even if it means potentially putting their extremely privileged elite career at slight risk of demotion? Or does one respond with denial and lying, digging in to make the culture a little more toxic and unfair and disrespected? What do we expect from our [/b]leaders[/b] does selfishness and greed have no bound? [/quote]

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