Consequently, I want to take full responsibility for having my name on the cover of a book containing plagiarized sections, and where the contributions from the authors were undifferentiated. In such circumstances, when plagiarism is detected, the one who finds it has every right to look at the cover and decide right on the spot who is responsible. The names on the cover are the ones with the authorial responsibility, which is the primary responsibility according to contract, and the editorial imprint is the one with the publisher’s responsibility, also specified by contract. Further investigation might reveal where particular culpability lies, but the responsibility for the project flows (according to God’s design) to the names on the cover.
Douglas Wilson
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Quite a wordsmithy way to appear to take the blame while actually accusing others of being the ones at fault. Doug will take responsibility because his name is on the cover, but he didn’t actually commit any plagiarism. Okay.
And I’ve yet to see any suggestion by Doug as to him suffering any real *consequences* in light of his authorial responsibility. Of course, he thinks his pet child molesters Sitler and Wight should get off relatively easy for what they’ve done. So what’s a little (or, actually, a lot of) plagiarism?
Typical Dougspeak for appearing to confess something while confessing nothing. It’s always the appearance with Doug Wilson — the wolf that dresses up like a sheep, the liar who sounds at first like he’s telling the truth, the hands of Esau but the voice of Jacob, the Pharisee who makes long prayers in public but has no real religion, etc. Oh, and one more — the devil who disguises himself as an angel of light.
Doug’s current behavior, that is, pretending that he has no responsibility for his continuing plagiarism problems reminds me of a child’s perception that he/she is invisible when their eyes are covered up.
“A cute mistake that young children make is to think that they can hide themselves by covering or closing their eyes. Why do they make this error? A research team led by James Russell at the University of Cambridge has used a process of elimination to find out. Testing children aged around three to four years, the researchers first asked them whether they could be seen if they were wearing an eye mask, and whether the researcher could see another adult, if that adult was wearing an eye mask. Nearly all the children felt that they were hidden when they were wearing the mask, and most thought the adult wearing a mask was hidden too.”
http://digest.bps.org.uk/2012/10/why-do-children-hide-by-covering-their.html May, 10, 2016 Research Digest – Blogging on Brain and Behavior
In Dougworld, denying that he steals the words of others is meaningful because it proves (to him) he hasn’t done it. Children over the age of four understand that putting a blanket over their heads to vanish from sight is magical thinking. Arguably, Doug’s inability to take responsibility for his own behavior has long since moved from the magical thinking stage to what many would judge, myself included, is serious pathology.
Rose Huskey
Donald Trump envisions a wall separating the U.S. and Mexico. He says it will be a magnificent, impenetrable wall. Perhaps he should consult with “Pastor” Douglas Wilson on how to build it. Because “Pastor” Wilson has built a very tall, impenetrable, and no doubt (in his “mind”) magnificent wall separating himself from reality, and with the wall allowing him to dwell in The Country of Douglas Wilson, where he can live unencumbered by facts, he is free to imagine himself to be…..well, all the false, bizarre things he imagines himself to be.
Similary, Doug will take responsibility for being overweight because his corpulent belly is located on his torso. Further investigation will show, however, the actual fault lies with the food and alcohol itself, with its high calorie and saturated and trans fatty acids (of course, for him it’s probably cis-fatty acid).