• masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Let’s say that no matter how much is “stolen” the peach seller has an infinite inventory. It never depletes, and it never goes bad.

    The peach seller takes all the money, increases the selling price of the peach, and each peach you buy is a contract that allows the seller to kill your wife.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, you’re right, sorry, we can’t have a concept of intellectual property without Disney mandating we attach a murder clause into it. That’s certainly not stretching the argument.

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        2 months ago

        Just gonna paste my reply since I have an infinite supply of it. (Did I just steal from myself?)

        Why singularly focus on the one point about a recent Disney event and completely disregard the other points as if they were now wholly tainted by your critique.

        Ignore the single point about the reference to Disney then.

        Please continue with the other points.

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          I’d be more likely to reply if you’d actually withdraw the argument. Say “You’re right, sorry, that was a dumb thing to focus on since it has nothing to do with the point about intellectual property. But the point stands.” Don’t just put the onus on me to “ignore the times I say something I can’t substantiate.”

          Basically, if I know you’ll never walk something back from being convinced, you’re not arguing in good faith, and addressing the rest of it (something you can imagine I’ve wasted my time doing before in previous online discussions) is really not worth my effort.

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        Why singularly focus on the one point about a recent Disney event and completely disregard the other points as if they were now wholly tainted by your critique.

        Ignore the single point about the reference to Disney then.

        Please continue with the other points.

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          The issue is not the criticism of Disney my brother. The issue is everyone trying to generalise and use it as a moral backbench to justify piracy when this is just an example of a case specific incident

          My point is that it would be smarter to use the Disney argument to evaluate whether it would be sensible for one to purchase a Disney subscription rather than as an argument to justify piracy as a whole