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Both private property and intellectual property are arbitrary social constructs. You can argue whether one or the other is good or bad if you want, but neither
by esoterica 6y ago
Both private property and intellectual property are arbitrary social constructs. You can argue whether one or the other is good or bad if you want, but neither are fundamental laws of the universe and neither are more intrinsically true than the other. You are trying to draw a binary categorical distinction between the two where none exists.
> However, it seems to be an unnatural state of affairs, to have the government involved in enforcing secrets among its citizens.
It's no more "unnatural" than the enforcement of physical property laws. Courts and prisons and cops are artificial human institutions, not part of "nature".
- breck 6y ago> neither are more intrinsically true than the other. I would disagree. The term "property" is circa 1300. The term "intellectual property" started being used about 500 years later to (I would say undeservedly) piggy back on the success of the former. But it's an oxymoron, as IP rights in fact contradict property rights, hence it being less "true", in a logical sense. > It's no more "unnatural" than the enforcement of physical property laws. Yeah, that line of mine was sort of rhetorical and not substantive. If it were a PR I'd remove it :).