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Your perspective on whether she loses anything really doesn’t matter. That’s the same even for cold hard property. If I exchange your tic tacs for $1,000,000 without your consent, you only win, you didn’t lose, but it’s still theft.

#1380 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago · Criticism

You’re violating her rights: specifically, her copyright. That’s an aggression.

#1379 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago · Criticism

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

#1378 · Amaro Koberle, 3 months ago · CriticismCriticized2 criticim(s)

Yes.

#1377 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago · Criticism

Credit is a different matter from copyright. Plagiarism and copyright infringement aren’t the same thing.

#1376 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago · Criticism

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

#1375 · Amaro Koberle, 3 months ago · CriticismCriticized1 criticim(s)

I should be clear though that it is only right for the law to interfere with property to protect others’ rights. It’s not right for the law to confiscate your money to collect taxes, say.

#1374 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

true!

#1372 · Amaro Koberle, 3 months ago

So… the law extending to others’ property is nothing new and not totalitarian in and of itself.

#1371 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

exactly

#1370 · Amaro Koberle, 3 months ago

Right, like preventing you from murdering them.

#1369 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

Maybe? Kinda? Not sure.

You don't get to use your knife to aggress on others, that much is clear. So perhaps this can be understood as a right of others to do certain things with your property.

#1368 · Amaro Koberle, 3 months ago

Some people abuse the letter of the law to violate the spirit of the law, but that doesn’t mean the corresponding laws are bad per se. Those are problems, errors that can be corrected.

#1367 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago · Criticism

I can also think of ways this could be misused.

#1366 · Amaro Koberle, 3 months ago · CriticismCriticized1 criticim(s)

I'm not sure, seriously. I'm open to suggestions.

There's lots of things that I think people shouldn't do yet should still be legal.

#1364 · Amaro Koberle, 3 months ago

So if someone publishes a blog post falsely but believably accusing you of being a pedophile and then all your business partners stop talking to you and you lose all your money and your friends and family ghost you, you wouldn’t want to have any legal recourse?

#1363 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

I'm not sure it's a good thing.

#1362 · Amaro Koberle, 3 months ago

But it isn’t scarce in a physical sense.

#1361 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago · Criticism

Reputation is scarce in the sense that it’s limited.

#1360 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago · CriticismCriticized1 criticim(s)

Take someone’s reputation. That isn’t a ‘scarce’ thing yet it’s a good thing there are laws against defamation.

#1359 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago · Criticism

Duplicate of #1346.

#1358 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago · Criticism

Imagine living on a flat planet that extends infinitely in all directions.

Land is not scarce on this planet.

You build a house, mixing your labor with an acre of land. Someone comes and takes your land, saying you have no cause for complaint since land isn’t scarce.

See how scarcity isn’t necessary for something to be property?

#1357 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago · Criticism

It’s right for the law to address and prevent the arbitrary, and that’s about more than just property. See #1345.

#1356 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago · Criticism

But the law against murder isn’t a dumb law even though it doesn’t refer to someone’s body being scarce property.

#1355 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago · Criticism

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

#1354 · Amaro Koberle, 3 months ago · CriticismCriticized2 criticim(s)