All medication are drugs

Thanks for that. I'm of the view that copyright systems, and many other legal systems, imperfectly reflect morality and people should try to follow the ethical spirit of these systems even in situations where they're absent. But your perspective is definitely a valid lens as well.

Regarding your edit concerning plagarism, I would direct you to the Wikipedia entry on attribution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_(copyright)

> a work in the public domain, which is any not covered by copyright, has no such attribution requirement... this is the distinguishing factor between plagiarism, which is not a crime, but an unethical act, and copyright infringement, which may be a cause of legal action from the author.

A comment obviously has no copyright attached to it, but it is still a work in the public domain, and claiming it as one's own is the clinical definition of plagarism.

Edit: Also this is clearly not a parody of the comment, it's a direct rip of the comment.

Sure, parody's different, and public domain isn't covered by copyright so it's not like laws are being broken, but to have the original commenter show up here & OP deny attribution to their face seems like ethical misconduct.

Edit: Also this is clearly not a parody of the comment, it's a rip of the comment.

Not to an original author. Lack of attribution is plagiarism, an unethical act. To say nothing of OP denying this when questioned.

Their denial of attribution