In other words, I highly doubt Little Miss Claire would have just spontaneously turned into the perfect storm of flame wars if she'd just been left the fuck alone. This is not to defend her, but rather just a statement of fact, much as "It wouldn't have blown your leg off if you hadn't kept stomping on it for fun, you idiot" isn't actually in defense of a land mine.
More accurately, there would have been nothing to leave her the fuck alone about if she hadn't been plagirizing to begin with. That particular landmine wasn't hidden by a layer of dirt, it was on display with a sign saying "landmine here, don't jump on it".
I agree, once she stepped on the landmine, everyone came running to flame the fire, but the initial start point was that she was plagarizing the works of others. Now, based on the extremely high rage quotient of the HP fandom, I am sure they all would have found something to bitch about... but she wasn't an innocent maiden who did nothing werong and just wanted to be left alone.
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Date: 2010-02-24 07:34 pm (UTC)More accurately, there would have been nothing to leave her the fuck alone about if she hadn't been plagirizing to begin with. That particular landmine wasn't hidden by a layer of dirt, it was on display with a sign saying "landmine here, don't jump on it".
I agree, once she stepped on the landmine, everyone came running to flame the fire, but the initial start point was that she was plagarizing the works of others. Now, based on the extremely high rage quotient of the HP fandom, I am sure they all would have found something to bitch about... but she wasn't an innocent maiden who did nothing werong and just wanted to be left alone.