Best man still wins

In a world where one-up man ship has become the accepted norm, it is sad to see the people who once would have been mentors and respected elders stooping to throwing their weight around.

Weight throwing implies a last resort, a failure of the chain of command, it is what people do who can't make it any other way, or believe they can't.

The very people who should be above and beyond the despicable behavior of plagiarizing are the ones who know the most efficient ways to do it. They have the experience to subvert the laws with the weight that they carry for being respectable.

In the end no one can do anything about it, but concede they've been one-upped by a master who can retire knowing he didn't really deserve any accolades for such nefarious work.

And after the concession, the human being who still owns his own dignity just has to let it all go and move on knowing he is above that kind of behavior, that he doesn't have to resort to thievery to publish and can make his own name with his own work.