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> This is an appeal to emotion. It's not very honest to cherry pick a nice sounding example. How about taxes spent for wars and so on? In some countries petrol

by MarkMc 9y ago

> This is an appeal to emotion. It's not very honest to cherry pick a nice sounding example. How about taxes spent for wars and so on? In some countries petrol tax must be spent on building and maintaining roads. Similarly, can't we have an 'expired IP tax' which must be spent on cancer research? > The money that people saved by not paying disney do not disappear. They will be spent, perhaps on cancer research, or something else. Some people might decide to work less because they no longer need to pay for the movie. Hasn't the money 'disappeared' in this case?

explainplease 9y ago
> In some countries petrol tax must be spent on building and maintaining roads. Similarly, can't we have an 'expired IP tax' which must be spent on cancer research? Are you trolling? You're comparing a petrol tax used to maintain roads, to an "expired intellectual 'property'" tax which hypothetically would be used to fund a completely unrelated activity, one which cannot be argued with, because how could you be against cancer research, you heartless bastard? What about the children with leukemia? You monster! I will therefore raise you a "let's put a cancer research tax on EVERYTHING! No disposable income until cancer is cured! You have to be in favor of it, or you are a cold, emotionless hater!" You can't disagree with me, because "no enemies to the left, no friends to the right." Do you see how this goes? All I have to do is out-extreme your extremeness, and you can't disagree with me, because emotional appeals to child cancer research. It's an intellectually dishonest form of argument, so please, knock it off. Seriously, do you not realize that you are proposing to give the government ownership of all expired copyrights? What part of "for limited times" and "public domain" do you not understand? You actually want the government to own everything in our culture?!
eeZah7Ux 9y ago
> Some people might decide to work less because they no longer need to pay for the movie. Hasn't the money 'disappeared' in this case? No, you don't generate money out of thin air by working. It's a transfer from somebody else. Besides, for many people working less is obviously valuable, otherwise you'd see a lot of people working 100 hours a week.

by MarkMc 9y ago

explainplease 9y ago

> In some countries petrol tax must be spent on building and maintaining roads. Similarly, can't we have an 'expired IP tax' which must be spent on cancer research? Are you trolling? You're comparing a petrol tax used to maintain roads, to an "expired intellectual 'property'" tax which hypothetically would be used to fund a completely unrelated activity, one which cannot be argued with, because how could you be against cancer research, you heartless bastard? What about the children with leukemia? You monster! I will therefore raise you a "let's put a cancer research tax on EVERYTHING! No disposable income until cancer is cured! You have to be in favor of it, or you are a cold, emotionless hater!" You can't disagree with me, because "no enemies to the left, no friends to the right." Do you see how this goes? All I have to do is out-extreme your extremeness, and you can't disagree with me, because emotional appeals to child cancer research. It's an intellectually dishonest form of argument, so please, knock it off. Seriously, do you not realize that you are proposing to give the government ownership of all expired copyrights? What part of "for limited times" and "public domain" do you not understand? You actually want the government to own everything in our culture?!

eeZah7Ux 9y ago

> Some people might decide to work less because they no longer need to pay for the movie. Hasn't the money 'disappeared' in this case? No, you don't generate money out of thin air by working. It's a transfer from somebody else. Besides, for many people working less is obviously valuable, otherwise you'd see a lot of people working 100 hours a week.