> when he was a leftist, he encouraged a lot of irrational suffering to promote himself (using, e.g., plagiarism).
What form did this plagiarism take ? Generally, I take this type of behaviour to mean that you use something somebody else did, but suggest or imply that you came up with the idea or that you did it. However, you might also be accused of plagiarism, even although you did not intend to present something you took or received legitimately from somebody else, as if you invented it, but just wanted to use it for your own purposes in your personal life. Interpretations of exactly what was plagiarised may differ, and the plagiarism difficult to prove - the conclusion I drew about this as a 15 year-old in trying to sort out for myself what was fair in the matter of giving and getting, taking and receiving, was that "truth" was insufficient by itself, it required also honesty and other virtues, i.e. a genuine intention. Thanks Jurriaan
