Topic #4

I think this is a very hard topic to discuss about.  I do agree in a sense that taking someone's idea (fully) and not giving any credit is morally wrong.  You can't just take someone else's idea and make it yours.  But, I believe that there are no originals in the world.  Everything already exists in this world naturally and people take what exists and put it to word, philosophies, and theories. Maybe its the fact of who takes what exists "first" and put it together, when it becomes their own, original.  So if you talk about the same idea, or make an art work based off something, you should credit what you based of from.  But it's weird because whoever you gave credit to, also got the idea from anther place.  So I believe it's very complicating.   But the fact that they take what is already existing is stealing from nature or from wherever it existed.  But people don't realize that and think it's theirs.  So if another person who sees what is existing already and tries to put it together but after someone did it's consider stealing, plagerism. However, if it's a direct quote or word someone said then of course you need to give them credit.  But overall I don't believe there is "natural."  I think its something people, the community stereotyped and made up.  And who ever started the stereotype is the origin, but you can't claim who started a"stereotype," it's what everyone believes.  

 

An example I have been thinking is love stories.  If someone was writing about a love story where two characters can't be together because of their parents and class difference, it is all good.  It's not stealing from anyone because they are writing using their own words.  But wouldn't the idea of love story itself stealing from the stereotype of what we believe in? Who are we to give credit to? William Shakespeare for writing "Romeo and Juliet?"  I just think this is a topic where people could endlessly question and argue about.