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All of my worries in your scenario come from cases where the premises of your hypothetical are violated: they break my stuff, they don't leave, they take things
by jefftk 4y ago
All of my worries in your scenario come from cases where the premises of your hypothetical are violated: they break my stuff, they don't leave, they take things, etc.
(The more a hypothetical requires you to assume things operating very differently from how they would in real life, the less useful the intuitions it generates are.)
- delusional 4y agoThere are indeed plenty of problems with my hypothetical situation. The point wasn't to reason from the metaphor, it was rather to question the concept a little deeper. The cases you propose all seem to relate to some "fear" or "risk" that your property degrades in value. I agree that those are real attributes of property, I wasn't arguing they aren't. In reality my view of property rights is way more utilitarian and post-modern than i express in the hypothetical. I see property rights as a useful thing we made up to systematize and compartmentalize the messy universe we live in. In that system IP rights make perfect sense because it's useful to society that you can reap some benefit from dispersing good ideas.