No... your interpretation isn't an interpretation, it's different and doesn't even approach meaning the same thing... one is an intelligent and thoughtful position hoping for a better world where reason will be allowed to work, the other is a woolly waffle of cuddly pink goo that wants a sole idea to rule the world... we've been there, tried it and got rid of it in many places...
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
I was just reading this,
"For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth—that let no man in this world expect; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. " From here,
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/608/608-h/608-h.htm
And thought it sounded like this,
"New modes of being will arise spontaneously from this massive thought experiment, be discussed at length and abandoned just as quickly until one ideal is realized that will be the harbinger of the new day."
What do you think?
@spellbanisher, I'm curious as to where you think we should date the origins of copyright?
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