Plagiarism is a big deal

Plagiarism is a big deal

What is most grating about Vicente Sotto III’s cut-and-paste mania is that he thinks he did nothing wrong. And so do others, including, for a time, Juan Ponce Enrile, who seemed to trivialize it, until he took a clear position in his recent privilege speech.

“We are not condoning the act of plagiarism in the Senate,” the leader of the Senate declared. “If there is anyone of us wittingly or unwittingly who commits this act, that member would be man enough or honorable enough to stand up and answer for it.”

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