Do you ever wonder if your thoughts are ever really original? Like, how do you know that they’re unique? How do you claim them as yours, for copyright reasons. They are your personal intellectual property, but let’s be honest. There is and has been over 7 billion people living on Earth. That only increases the possibility of more people to think alike or to have the same thought. So, is your thought your thought, or is it someone else’s and you just don’t know?
There’s a lot of times where I want to make a really fancy quote or come up with a really fancy idea. And a lot of times those things have already been thought up. Like, I think there was once in Junior High or something, I was writing a paper, and I wrote down something I thought was great. However, my teacher warned me not to plagiarize and that I should go and cite it right away. This kind of thing confused me because it came from my head. So, that’s why I ask? Are we really original? Or are we just like everyone else, or like someone else 100 years ago, and we just don’t know?
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