Writings have arguably been the single most important means of sharing information since the dawn of humanity. As time has progressed and technology has changed the way we create, share, and store writings, we see how writing and creation of history can and has been abused. Generally, abuse comes in one of two forms, the blatant change in facts, what really happened, and plagiarism. While similar in being examples of falsified information, I see plagiarism as the worse offender because of the ability to affect the “now”. Writers take up insane amounts of time and energy to create or research or both; to conduct interviews and check facts. They do this with the intent of birthing a child piece of work and to have the identity of that work stolen, for use of personal gain, I think, is horrible.
