Let me sum up the conversation for anyone who couldn't be bothered to read itt.
BerkuT_gru: Look what I copied!
Shipbuilder: Good job!
PuckMercury: The hollocost, I believe that war happened on the hollodeck...
lowing: Arabs are bad!
jonsimon: Jews and lowling are bad too!
Eugefunk84: Judge not!
Lowling: omg, what do you mean “don't take a superficial standpoint on something I have no clue about! Stop flip-flopping you liberal hippie whiner, be more like Jesus, he would have kicked some Israeli butt!”
PRiMACORD: Here's some really sad videos of things people shouldn't watch, HAVE FUN!
lowing: PRIMACORD I will prove that any point of view can be right using only mytube.com and a bottle of Vaseline.
PRIMACORD: Ouch, stop it, you're hurting me!
lowling: You know i love you baby...
You children arguing on which side is more wronger, I am sending you to your room for missing the point completely!
The blog post wasn't about which side is wrong, or more brutal. There are certain truths about war that ubiquitous. Shooting prisoners rather than marching them back to makeshift prisons is easier and more efficient. Torture can be a quicker way to retrieve information, than psychological tactics and wearing down the will power of the enemy. Arming your children can provide a tactical edge against societies who have moral qualms about harming children. All of these things are part of war. To deny that is to deny that war even exists. Killing someone is never a painless surgery. It's a nightmare that haunts even our grandfathers fifty years after world war 2.
The thing some of you are missing; the ORIGINAL author wasn't siding with Arabs as much as pointing out the discrepancy in so called “neutral reporting”, and our perceptions of the ongoing war in Beirut. This isn't an article about war, as it is about war reporting. Seeing as how it is in the U.S. Interests for US allies to prevail, in even their ugliest endeavors, it should be no surprise to anyone that news agencies put Israel in the most favorable light they are able to without seeming completely biased on the subject.
Plagiarism.... I am reminded of a fourth of July while I was in the service. There was this private who posted a poem on the NBC gear locker. She claimed to have written it herself. Some of you may have read this already, I believe the title is "freedom isn't free".
Needless to say she didn't write it, but with the act of plagiarism she showed everyone how desperately she needed to be praised for being smart. Maybe she wanted more attention when she was young, or whatever.
Sure we all guffaw the act of stealing, but the thing that really pisses me off at the "author" of this topic is that he was smart enough to change the words around to sound more like something he'd say but he wasn't smart enough to know that anyone with a little common sense could recognize what it was simply because of the style of writing.
How many people wake up in the morning and think to themselves, "I want to write an op-ed style news piece for the people at bf2s.com." Does that seem like the sort of things people do on a discussion forum which main feature is throwing grenades over a wall for points like some sort of freaky carnival game?
By changing the original author's voice, you the plagiarist has only blurred the meaning of the original piece with your own less developed writing style, and lack of real personal opinion on the topic. Had you been smart, and not riddled with self doubt you probably could have read the original piece and come to a conclusion of your own, and commented in a way that was constructive and not unintentionally destructive.
No one gets +1 Karma from me, because I got none to give!
Edit for some typos and spelling
Last edited by P581 (2006-08-11 17:11:19)