Quote from: bitcoin2cash on August 31, 2011, 01:49:51 AM

Quote from: Hawker on August 30, 2011, 08:54:05 PM

Your whole premise is that 1 individual has the right to prevent the rest of society having a brand like Coca-Cola or MacDonalds.

I also claim that 1 individual has the right to prevent the rest of society from murdering, enslaving, raping or stealing from that person. It doesn't matter how many people want something that's an injustice. It's still an injustice.

Depriving people of the right to organise themselves in a way that benefits the entire society is a greater injustice. If the choice is between you losing the freedom to profit from copying the output of someone else's research and the rest of us losing access to new medicines, you lose. You are deluding yourself if you think your "right" to be a freeloader is somehow more important than our right to organise ourselves to support research and innovation. That would be a real injustice.

So far, all your ideas seem to amount to is you having free access to unearned profit and everyone else having their freedom removed to facilitate you. Unless you have some proposal as to how the rest of society can have its medical research and its branded products, I think we are done with your ideas.