[customguy]

The context of this subthread is explaining that

> If it’s OK (or at least negligible on a small scale), then it must be OK on a large scale.

is a fallacy. Which it is. You confirm this by apparently seeing a difference between generating a little bit of heat and a whole lot, to name one of infinite examples anyone can easily come up with.

> Again, this isn't a "this at small scale is ok, but at large scale it isn't" argument.

You just keep doing the thing I pointed out in my first reply, you claim "it's not this" on a technicality, and then say "so therefore it's this instead", and the other thing is a criticism nobody brings up, ever.

And it gains you nothing, because if plagiarism isn't even okay at small scale, surely you can see how it's even less okay at big scale.