Plavatos

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[–] Plavatos 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

While outside the scope of the article I disagree with the notion patents need to go away. If privately funded, developed, and created a patent incentivizes ingenuity and has it's place. That said, limits of some sort prevent monopolies/exploitation and are the other side of a healthy system. **If publicly funded in any way the people have a right to it.

I know Lemmy is very anti-corpo and I generally I am too. But for a personal inventor imagine spending years of your life on a project only to have your only way to seek compensation for that work taken away - unless you're a total saint you would never want to create again (or certainly wouldn't share it).

The counter point is that if it can save millions of people it certainly seems wrong to withhold it for personal gain, and so there must be a compromise somewhere or that'd make the person evil (which most corporations end up being).

[–] Plavatos 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Found the 2018 East Regional DDR runner up.

[–] Plavatos 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something like this... but maybe with less acceptance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI79h2FSnS4

[–] Plavatos 3 points 1 year ago

To what exactly are you objectifying?

[–] Plavatos 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] Plavatos 4 points 1 year ago

You're spot on, total Dr Bronner-syphilis-riddled-scrawlings-vibes here...

(Jokes aside, I like Dr Bronner soap - apparently they run a decent company too)

[–] Plavatos 3 points 1 year ago

Looks like someone is going down a peg or two next time....

[–] Plavatos 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel we just can't agree on this argument online, and it's likely because the line for tolerance differs on so many factors, history being a huge one.

I'm aware German laws exist to ban fascist symbols, likely as an ounce of prevention along the lines, "we won't repeat another Hitler".

It might take the US falling into a fascist state and being liberated to make us adopt such "drastic" measures as raids. Until then 1A has been routinely held up to protect hate speech so for now it's up to us as a society to make a conscious decision what we'll tolerate. We just have to be as vocal about it as the racists/fascists.

[–] Plavatos 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, grew up in the church for 35 years and I'm still somewhat bitter.

[–] Plavatos 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If the requirement for being accepted into Heaven is to accept God as your savior, then you likely did so to avoid hell, meaning you've done it out of coercion/selfishness.

Seems to me the only way to get into a good afterlife (if one exists) is to accept there isn't one and any good you do on the Earth is purely to make it a better place for all life.

[–] Plavatos 3 points 1 year ago

Well, keep it up! You're doing ~~God's~~ Satan's work.

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