After doing those plagiarism exercises in class I did not understand why people would choose to plagiarize as opposed to doing the work on their own. To me, at least, doing the work and writing things in your own style seems to be much easier.
The plagiarism case that I found, France: Chief Rabbi Steps Down Over Plagiarism, really struck me. Reading about a Rabbi that chose to stoop to the level of committing such an unethical act disappointed me a lot. Rabbi’s are known to be such ethical leaders of Jewish communities. It is very unfortunate and shameful that this instance could happen.
I agree it seems very difficult to plagiarize successfully. It’s vastly easier to simply do the paper honestly.
That is pretty crazy. I guess he really did not think that he would be caught.