The truth is, patents are not a poorly executed good idea; they are a morally indefensible, heinously evil idea. They are a more sophisticated feudalism, but fe

The truth is, patents are not a poorly executed good idea; they are a morally indefensible, heinously evil idea. They are a more sophisticated feudalism, but feudalism nonetheless. There obvious moral truth is that no human being has the right to tell another that he can't independently think, create, and sell a given product, and that truth holds regardless of whether he thought of an idea that someone else happened to think of first. Patents are based in pure mythology, they are a sign that humanity still hasn't gotten out of barbaric intellectual ruts (along with a number of other litmus tests of human barbarism, such as the War on Drugs, the non-consensual forms of government we have, and many other things).