Slavery was fucked up, so we got rid of slavery. Patent law is fucked up, so we get mad at Apple. These two things are not alike, and the latter reaction does

Slavery was fucked up, so we got rid of slavery. Patent law is fucked up, so we get mad at Apple. These two things are not alike, and the latter reaction doesn't really make sense. I never said anything remotely close to the idea that I think what Apple is doing is OK, rather quite the opposite. But I'm not going to be mad at Apple about it because being mad at Apple accomplishes pretty much literally nothing. Instead I'll direct my frustration at the true cause of the insanity: the inane patent law itself.