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Originally Posted by teh603
Impossible to tell one way or the other on the internet. For all you know, I could be an AI being run in the back room of an Anonymous server farm. *shrug*
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And they call
me a writer.
(You should talk, Mr/Ms/neutral Name and Androgynous Avatar.)
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Originally Posted by teh603
No, but societies do have to hang together for mutual assistance to a greater or lesser degree. That aspect of it has only broken recently with the dawn of industrialization.
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Not true. In fact, patent and copyright laws were drafted specifically to provide incentive to create products that would be mutually productive for society; without those laws, we would have less creativity and fewer products due to the lack of profit incentive, because industrialization makes it too easy to copy others' products/services and steal their potential profits.
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Originally Posted by teh603
For example, a carpenter buys a new lathe...
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I understand the analogy, but it's not germaine here; the discussion is about redistributing easily-duplicated products, not reselling used products; and as I said earlier, trying to draw comparisons to physical products is an example of the bad metaphors that have driven this decade-plus-long argument.