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Board Politics & Society
Re: Intellectual Property - In All Fairness!
by
FredericBastiat
on 31/08/2011, 17:02:45 UTC
Nonsense and you already know it.

A new drug costs several hundred million dollars to develop .  If you remove IP protections, that money will not be invested .  So society loses medical research and gains what ?  Nothing.

Likewise, you insist that everyone has the right to use the Coca-Cola name for their fizzy soft drink and the Ford name for their auto products.  That means no-one will have the peace of mind buying a reliable brand and a lot of people who did trust the Ford brand will die due to cheap parts .  Thats a loss for all of us and what is the gain?  Nothing.

Your ideology simply means that society must be poorer .  Feel free to provide a benefit - so far all I see is that your principles are wrongly based (we are not autonomous - we are social beings ) and as a result you have a poor result .

Come up with something positive please.  And telling us that volunteering to provide several hundred million dollars for drug research is an option is, well, not an option.

I inserted the bolds to respond to you in context.