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You've misunderstood everything I said, it seems.
Two points worth simple correction:
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Why are you so upset at the idea that words were given meaning by someone who needed to coin a name for a particular concept???
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I'm not. Exactly the opposite. I'm arguing that others should accept the commonly understood chosen words, and stop claiming that by arguing the word, you can effect the thing.
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You seem to be quite good at rhetoric yourself. (Since you seem to believe doing so is evil...)
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1. Thank you!
2. I don't believe it's evil. I believe it's the way to effectively present an argument and to persuade.
What I find evil is having only rhetoric where you should have sound argument and evidence and logic.
ApK
p.s. I'd always heard stories about cultures that had no concept of owning property (land).
They defended it anyway.
Real property can be defended with physical force. Intellectual property is defended by laws. It's a perfectly valid analogy of terms.