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> I'd argue that any supposed "urge to share" is weaker > than the evident urge to control the products of one's > own labor. I think this is subject to the sa
by yungchin 14y ago
> I'd argue that any supposed "urge to share" is weaker
> than the evident urge to control the products of one's
> own labor.
I think this is subject to the same fallacy of the parent post. Even if most people have a desire to obtain intellectual privileges over their labour, that doesn't mean it's good for society as a whole to give it to them.
- rayiner 14y agoThere is no "fallacy" in either post. Neither of us claimed that giving people what they desire would or would not be "good for society" under a definition of "good" that would exclude "giving people what they want" as a criteria for "good for society."
- yungchin 14y agoRight, in that case it's not a fallacious argument, but rather plain populism ;)