I am quite guilty of copy and paste. I do it mostly for my research and assignments but I've never really thought that I was doing myself a huge disfavor until I read your post.

I could relate the issue of copy and paste to human relations with the earth. We keep using up the earths resources, cutting trees, burning forests and defacing our lovely universe. What if we create more than we destroy. Then we are leaving legacies not only for ourselves but generations to come.

This is also true about copy and paste.