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the point isn't that what that chick did was wrong, it's that we overreacted and turned into a mob.
There is ths thing called due process which organizations go through before handing down punishment. yeah, if ucla caught her plagiarism then she'd be kicked out--but not without a hearing, going-over the facts, and not with personal attacks. she has a right to explain her story, and serial killers have this right, a petty plagiarist should too.
there could be mitigating circumstances and explainations. ie. what if someone designed her site for her and neglected to note it was really stolen? what if she had the mistaken connoctation that everything on the web is free? what if the portfolio was for a small audience and never was intended for everyone to see--does that put her in the same league? if she never thought she was representing the site as her own creation (who knows, the portfolio could be a modeling portfolio), then does it mean the attacks on honesty are totally warranted?
the point: we had no right to do what we did. rips happen all the time. look at pirated-sites.com. yet if we're going to hang this girl then why not everyone else? especially when they are profiting much more than some dinky personal homepage/portfolio site?
frankly shellie, the fact that you made such a quick judgement on her and made up your own way to punish her (via confrontation) is disturbing. and that you quickly grouped her along with other folks/villians without hearing from her is prejudicial.