Why is plagiarism morrally wrong?

Question

If somecone could explain to me using a lot of details I'd appreciate it

Answer 1

Simply because it counts as one form of stealing. It involves taking one's property/belonging without permission and making it your own, which clashes against the good human conscience.

If you think about it, there is no one person on this earth who steals without having a reason to do so. Even those that confess to have done it for fun, has a reason to do it, namely for entertainment, even though it is wrong. Other motives may due to laziness, greed, poverty, power aka all the evils of the human nature.

And so when one person who is of good heart and good conscience is doing things that is in conflict with his beliefs or heart, he would feel uncomfortable and unhappy aka he will feel morally wrong to do so.

That is my opinion.

Answer 2

When you plagiarize another's work, you are in effect saying that you wrote the material yourself. There are more incidents of plagiarism in today's schools than at any other time in the history of man. Too much of it has been brought on by the computer.
If teachers today were more enthusiastic about teaching, they would require students to do research for term papers in libraries. This would require the students to actually read the material, and learn how to document the sources of the material in footnotes and bibliographies.
Oh, for the return to Strunk & White!!!!

Answer 3

Plagiarism is morally wrong because you are using someone else's ideas.It is a bit like cheating.Would you like to write a book and then find out some else was copying all your stuff for their own gain.?The sort of things that get plagiarized ,need permission to use because of royalty's .

Answer 4

I get the idea that you are writing a paper with this as the thesis statement.

I'll play along BUT YOU HAVE TO GIVE PROPER CREDIT.

Plagiarism is the act of stealing the work, specifically the printed word, that is the intellectual property of another individual and claiming it as your own.

It is intellectual theft because you are stealing the ideas, words, creativity and effort of another individual.

As in any issue involving theft, the Judeo-Christian ethic and commandments plainly state that "THOU SHALT NOT STEAL". This applies to all types of theft whether tangible (as in the case of goods and merchandise) or intangible (in the case of stealing services or words EITHER spoken or in printed material).

Withholding citations of the work of others indicates several things about the thief, none of which are too complimentary.

(1) lack of respect for the creative process
(2) lack of respect for YOUR OWN talents as a creative person
(3) lack of understanding about how a paper is constructed and organized
(4) deliberate choice to avoid the work by stealing the effort of another.

Hope that helps. REMEMBER, you also have to cite information you receive on the World Wide Web!!

Answer 5

well if you buy the idea that lying is wrong...

plagiarism is a form of lying. because you are mispresenting yourself as the author of those words.

when actually they are written by someone else.

when you have an assignment in school for example, you are supposed to be learning to write, learning to form your own ideas and express them. if you just copy someone else's ideas and writing, you did not learn anything. you did not benefit from the process and now you won't be able to write for yourself, which is what your teacher is supposed to be teaching you.

remember milli vanilli? if you plagiarize you are an imposter. pretending you did something you didn't really do.
you are lip synching instead of really singing.

another reason it's wrong is because you are "stealing" someone else's ideas and words. they should really have credit because they thought of them and wrote them down. who are you to take credit or a grade for what someone else thought up. they should get the 'A' instead of you.

Answer 6

So wait a minute... you've gotten an assignment on why plagiarism is wrong, and now you're asking us to do the work for you, so you can turn it in as your own?

Isn't it ironic? Don't you think? :p

Answer 7

Because someone else did all the work and isn't getting the credit for it, when you plagiarise his or her work.

What if you invented a device that would allow a car to get 1,000 miles per gallon of unleaded gasoline, but someone else copied your device and marketed it, and made a Trillion dollars in profit. That someone never acknowledged that you were the original inventor, and would not pay you for your invention. You do not get any money, but he gets tons of money and power. How would you feel about that?

Answer 8

It's only wrong if you feel that stealing someone else's stuff is wrong. If you have no problem with someone stealing YOUR money, or your clothes, or your books, or stealing your paycheck and claiming THEY did all of your work last week, then I guess it's okay!

Answer 9

how would you like it if i stole your identity? i consider that about the same thing. stealing credit for something someone else did, and the worst part is, i would be a fake. but of course i wouldn't steal someones credit because its not mine and if i don't have the ability to get it, than logically i don't deserve it.

Answer 10

Because humans have decided it is. Morality is a human invention so any moral determination is based on some human decision.