> If you're so against collective terms, I hereby insist that you no longer refer to the "United States", or "European" culture. that is being reductive. suff

> If you're so against collective terms, I hereby insist that you no longer refer to the "United States", or "European" culture. that is being reductive. sufficiently so that you're basically straw-manning their point. i would wager that, for example, extremely few people who view patents as negative (at least in this era), also view trademarks as negative.