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Originally Posted by HansTWN
If somebody writes a book that people want to read that person has already made a contribution. And you can respect their wishes or disregard them and just take what you want. Is that the "great society" you are dreaming of, where everybody ignores other people's rights because they think they will easily get away with it?
And what contribution did you make to society, to justify your boundless sense of entitlement?
And don't tell me you have already read all PD works worth reading.
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Well, I wrote a book that someone wanted to read, what exactly am I entitled to? Nothing and everything. I don't believe in a sense of entitlement, I believe in access to all knowledge as a fundamental human right.
People make contributions to society every day, a butterfly flapping its wings and all that, trying to gauge the importance of an individual contribution to the future of our culture is a fools errand. All contributions are equally important. Even mistakes, which cause us to reevaluate things.