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A difference is that the anti-copyright position is quite generally agreed (and also seems rationally well-supported). Disavowal is not merely a wild personal i
by hxa7241 15y ago
A difference is that the anti-copyright position is quite generally agreed (and also seems rationally well-supported). Disavowal is not merely a wild personal impulse.
And a/the virtue of any law is that element of general agreement, not just that it happens to be the law. So to do something agreed on but not law seems righter than to do something that is law but not so much agreed on.
Perhaps it could be put simply as: ultimately the law should follow us, not the other way around.
- billpatrianakos 15y agoRight, and that makes perfect sense. But haven't you seen representatives point to people like this and write them off as "bad apples"? When a large enough portion of the population deliberately ignores a law in protest it can't just be the end of it. That's only part one. Disobedience as a protest isn't enough. There has to be a second part where we somehow communicate to those in power why we act this way and why things need to change. Without that second part we're all just a bunch of hippie, counter culture, bad apples as far as they're concerned.