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Board Politics & Society
Re: Intellectual Property - In All Fairness!
by
NghtRppr
on 31/08/2011, 17:11:27 UTC
You might feel you have the right to set up a factory on your lakeside property, and dump chemicals in the lake while fishermen on the lake might feel this constitutes an act of violence against their livelihoods.

Who owns the lake? The guy dumping chemicals or the fishermen?


You might feel you have the right to sell meat from hormone-pumped animals even though those hormones can cause damage to the human biochemistry.  No 'violence' involved, you're not coercing them, though victims might feel they have no option but to seek medical treatment, and would probably be quite angry at you.

Are you telling people how the meat was produced when they ask or are you lying to them?

You might feel you can drink your alchohol and then drive your old broken car at high speed, but pedestrians whose families are maimed or killed will certainly feel aggrieved.

Who owns the road and what rules did they set?

There's nothing new you've presented here. These are all questions that have been asked and answered many times. I can point you to a few books if you like.