User blog comment:Creepy Thomas O./The Plagiarism of Michael Nemeth/@comment-4849011-20161205005736/@comment-28266772-20161205100827

I nearly had a group project get failed because one of our members copied and pasted his answer from the prescribed text book. We had to sit him down and slowly explain that we all knew what he'd done. What amazed me what his incredulity that he was caughtm when days earlier we'd all sat down together and read parts of the text book together as a starting point. He was very indignant that we expected him to contribute his own work.

I've never understood plagiarism. I wonder how people who do it can go to sleep at night. I might forgive a slip up here or there but I couldn't understand how someone would endeavour to build an entire career from stolen work.