Greed & Fear are two of the most powerful motivators in the world. With greed people's morals and ethics tend to go out the window. With fear people are willing to do just about anything to make that fear go away.
That said it's no excuse and nobody needs to feel sorry for these plagiarizers.
All we can do is keep plugging away doing the right thing building our own little community. In the end we will have success and those who only care about themselves will continue to live empty shallow lives.
Personally I'd rather try to touch as many people in a positive way as possible. It makes me sleep better at night and allows me to look my kids in the eye and tell them right from wrong.
BTW, thanks for the mention about the contest!
Agreed.
Me too. BTW, thank you for the SBI. I am hopeful sometime soon to find a good post on it (that is newer and open for comments) regarding the math behind it. You have given me many ideas to work with on helping others, such as the bounty on this post. I was unaware of it before seeing you use it, same with the SBI. The bounty is absolutely amazing. Instead of burning Steem with promotion, or paying whales for votes you give the money to those engaging with you directly. It's genius. Hopefully it will come to replace the vote bots.
Oh, and saw your brother in law went after I did to the plagiarizers account. I had never really envisioned myself flagging a post before, and hoping it won't be necessary again. I must have went there five or six times last night after flagging trying to find anything redeemable that would convince me to lift the flag.