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Old 03-05-2012, 11:08 PM   #170
bill_mchale
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Originally Posted by Giggleton View Post
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.
Ummm, I am pretty sure all contributions are not equally important. In the realm of books for example, something like 90-95% of everything that has ever been published has gone out of print. To claim a pulp novel that didn't even sell out its first modest printing is as important as a novel that has been read and studied for 200 years is yet another example of your sophistry.

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