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Lol no, I'm trying to understand your point.

So it's not me who's pirating the book that is violating her right. It's whoever uploaded it for me to download it, right?

Okay so without referring to current legislation. I understand that it is currently illegal, just like tax evasion, but that won't go far in persuading me that it isn't right.

Why am I violating her rights?

Why? I don't get that. She's not losing anything.

Am I committing aggression against JK Rowling if I pirate a PDF copy of Harry Potter?

I can also think of ways this could be misused.

I don't care about current law, there are lots of dumb laws. I care about what's right and why.

No. I don't expect to find it, but that doesn't make it less true. That's how I make sense of the difference between IP and real property.

The issue is scarcity. Digital money is also scarce since you cannot double spend it. If it wasn't scarce, it wouldn't be money and neither would it be private property.

Just that if it was so crucial for innovation then you'd expect innovation to suffer from all the copyright infringement that is going on.

Murdering someone destroys their scarce property (their body  in this case). Copying something using your own property leaves the original totally untouched.

All that being said, I think crediting people for inspiration is good form and should be part of common polite behavior.

Copyright is routinely violated without consequences anyway.

To keep someone from copying your work you have to infringe on the private property of that person by claiming an exclusive right on prohibiting his use of his privately owned copying medium to instantiate a certain pattern.

Intellectual property is a contradiction in terms because information isn't scarce the same way that private property necessarily must be.