Originally posted by Strangelove
No, you are making a fatal mistake. Any thread can be attacked for being stupid, spam, or just a waste of time. That in and of itself is not unoriginal. A thread can be attack and still original. I'm not speaking of any thread just being attacked in general. I'm talking about threads having their originality questioned. And this is usually black and white. If you have to spend time and energy defending your threads originality, then it's not original.
No, it can't be. Not by your logic. You said that if TIME + ENERGY is exerted into the defense of a thread, it cannot be original. This goes for any thread, deemed original or not, IF WE PLAY BY YOUR LOGIC.
You slip up each time with this:
If you have to spend time and energy defending your threads originality, then it's not original.
If a random person walks into a thread and insults it or questions it, it's unoriginal. ANY THREAD. That is what your logic plays on. If you have to defend it, it is automatically deemed unoriginal. That's faulty logic, Strangelove. Sorry, but it is.
The bottom line is distortion and change are different, making this thread differential. It's not a duplicate so just ... Get over it!
I'll brb later. I have a lunch meeting.