Can copy and paste be disabled? This is so annoying.

Both the iPhone and iPad have this annoying copy and paste highlights that appear when you don't need them.
Is there a way to disable Copy and Paste?

Meg St. Clair - I understand how it works, I have had the phone for several years. It seems to me that it is more sensitive in ios 6, or perhaps the browser/app changed, but either way, it is causing me a problem that it wasn't earlier.
paulcb- You are talking semantics. Wether I said the word push or the word tap, I am definitely not holding my finger on the screen.
Sounds like there is no solution within apple's product, so I will ask around some jb forums. (No I am not currently jb, I understand troubleshooting altered software is impossible).
Thanks for trying to help everybody.

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    Roderick Guerry wrote:
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