Plagiarism
Your editorial asserts that honorable men like King and Bruno engaged in plagiarism--stole others’ work without attribution--but should be excused because they also “left a rich legacy of their own thoughts and deeds.” Academic honesty, you conclude, is really only for the “rest of us” who “will leave a less visible mark on the world.”
Such meandering in the field of ethics leads to a disturbing paradox: The theft of the thoughts of others is pardonable in original thinkers.
GEORGE P. CLARK
Pasadena
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