The painful copying issue...

Let me say something really important...
These are my thoughts and my philosophy and I don't really care if someone doesn't agree with it. Recently in the cookie community arises the issue on copying, plagiarism, theft etc. Some people are so concerned about it, that can't sleep, they waste their and others time on empty arguments thus destroying friendships in groups and communities. Here are my 2 cents... and I wont get back to this topic again.
Don't be afraid that your ideas are being stolen..no one gets hurt! The world is much more wonderful and interesting than spying on someone who reiterated or plagiarized. All of us are imitators of something and there is some development of a mankind in that. You grudge your talent? Nobody will steal it from you and it wont be added to you if your work wont be copied. Don't think about it! Simply create! Be free! Create beauty and bring joy to people! Please, less self-worth, more humility. Less resentment, dear cookiers! May the joy and light of your souls light up the people around you..so many of them! The rest is vanity...

If you see that someone used your idea or copied your work, rejoice that you have been a source of inspiration. Only the best are copied! If a person is well-mannered and if your work in particular became an example for them they will award you with a credit..If not- leave it, you can't expect anything and can't prove anything.
If your ideas are so dear to you, do not expose them to the whole world! No one will ever come up with an idea to put their wallets on the street? Right? Conclusion - borrowing other people's ideas, using them as a basis for further work, an attempt to develop what has been invented by another author is not more than an impetus to creativity. If someone is a newbie it will be very useful for them! But they should always remember not to get carried away by only copying, it will eventually bring only disappointment.
Take a look at these pictures... What do you think, which one is a copy?

Both artists are famous all over the world
and both of these paintings are stored in the museum, and in the same museum!
Both pictures are brilliant!
Painting "Adam and Eve", both - in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Left - Titian, 1550. Right - Rubens, 1628.
Just food for thought...