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"Oh no, our crops did what crops do, better starting suing!" Monsanto can get fucked, the idea of patenting nature is so obviously absurd on the face of it tha
by gaganyaan 4y ago
"Oh no, our crops did what crops do, better starting suing!"
Monsanto can get fucked, the idea of patenting nature is so obviously absurd on the face of it that I must assume you were not in your right mind while writing this comment.
- colinmhayes 4y agoThe goal posts! How did they get so fast?! The fact remains. Farmers who don't knowingly plant patented seeds have nothing to worry about. The fact that the vast majority use the patented seeds means the seeds are worth more than they cost and the seed researchers are creating value.
- gaganyaan 4y ago"Patented seeds" is an oxymoron. Applying imaginary human concepts like that to nature is absurd, full stop.
- pfdietz 4y agoWhich orifice did you pull this axiom out of? Living creatures are compositions of matter, full stop. Patent law applies to them just as it does to any other compositions of matter. There's nothing ethically problematic about this either. Perhaps (and I am guessing) your problem is that patenting living things is slapping you in the face with the proposition that living things, including yourself, are just arrangements of atoms, and the feeling of dismay at that has transmuted itself into resentful attack on the messenger.
- gaganyaan 4y agoThat's an odd supposition. All living things are of course just arrangements of atoms. Stating "There's nothing ethically problematic about this either" doesn't fix the inherent unethical ramifications of trying to force the imaginary concept of "ownership" onto natural processes. I'm sorry that this is not obvious to you, but I hope that some day you can sit down and reflect why you don't understand that.