That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief we want to know how much money he stole and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom but what he did with it.
I don't dare postulate about science but I know that it takes both emotion...
People look at me and they go 'You're white you're smart you must have...
The problem is the more famous you get the more people see you who didn't choose to.