If a picture is a copy, was it made at the same time as the original, perhaps by the same hand?

My mother was so touched by her gesture that she decided to go back to the store and give the cashier a five-dollar bill to keep on hand in case the same happened to someone else if they didn't have enough money for all of their groceries.

In other words, the compiler generates pretty much the same code you would have written by hand without generics, casts and all, after checking the type-safety of your program.