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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
"Intellectual property" is a social construct. So is material property, marriage, currency, gender, law and political rights. None of these things have a "natural state."...
Humans do not necessarily have an innate desire to "share cool stuff." History is replete with secrets, exclusivity and restrictions on information, training and knowledge. E.g. the Bible wasn't translated into vernacular languages until the 1500s, and even then over the objections of the RCC; and only the elite read Latin (if at all).
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1) Gender is a social construct? I was born with mine!
2) Let's not forget that St. Jerome translated the Scriptures into Latin when everyone spoke it (thus his translations were called the "vulgate") in the fifth century. The Church promptly adopted it because it was the vernacular of the day!