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Originally Posted by ApK
More word games so people can rationalize selfishly doing stuff they have no right to do, and put their own whims above the interests of others or any common good.
The relevant meaning of "enshrine" here is:
and it is how we function as a civilized society, rather than just anarchistic animals.
Somewhere mixed in your statement is the idea that property rights are bad, or at least unimportant, and people shouldn't defend property. Most people disagree with you. I disagree with you. And, while you are entitled to your opinion, keep your hands off my stuff.
Words have power and influence, sure, but it's not because we have assigned words like "enshrine" and "piracy" that I and many others feel that way. You have that part totally backwards. We assign those words BECAUSE we feel that way. Maybe instead of trying to change the words in a fit of political correctness, more folks should worry about getting the message, in a bit of actual correctness.
Social and political abuses and excesses are NOT solved by renaming things. And the argument to do so is a distraction at best, and a harmful, misleading smokescreen at worst.
You seem to imply that calling something "piracy" by analogy directly leads to people storming in with muskets and cutlasses and slaughtering people.
Well, that's nonsense, but hopefully it means you'll understand when I say that infringing on Intellectual Property rights, and treating it like there is nothing wrong with doing it, can indeed to lead to acceptance of infringement of other rights, with similar rationalization and self-justification.
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This heated, contemptuous and accusatory response is full of most of the assumptions I might have predicted. If I was choosing a jury, I would move to strike this candidate.