In other words, they will choose with their silence to empower the plagiarists. As I've said in the past, "Plagiarism is the enslavement of someone else's genius."

I also waxed poetic about it:

"Empty Soul: An Introduction to Greedy Greedy"

Greedy Greedy, riddle me this…

Rhyme me a rhyme from the black abyss

You bought it all and you’ll buy more.

There’s never enough ‘cause there’s nothin’ in you.

You’ll take and buy and steal and grasp,

Your greedy, grasping heart never satisfied.

No price, no fame, no infamy, nor glory gained

For you, Greedy Greedy, is never enough.

More and more and more and more

Sucked down into the black abyss…

Used up, discarded and never mourned…

“Cause more and more and more and more

Is just… can never ever be enough.

Empty hands and empty heart…

And empty life brings empty soul,

And soulless life gives no gifts.

The soulless stealing another's gifts

Gifts they lack because

They've emptied their souls

In hot pursuit of greed…

Inspiration… just another empty, empty thing…

A thing that can’t be bought by you.

So, Greedy Greedy, you steal it,

You claim it, you take it as your own.

You never give… you only take,

Wondering why… why your life…

Your empty life turned out this way.

Greedy Greedy, you think you have it all,

And have the right to ever and ever more,

Never understanding that all you take,

Draining you out, makes you

Ever and ever more an empty soul.

© 16 September 2014, by D. Denise Dianaty