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I agree.

I understand the purpose, though. It takes time and effort to develop ideas. Odin forgive me for sounding like I'm defending the pharmaceutical industry, but it can cost hundreds of millions of dollars in salaries, materials, and everything else to develop a product. Without IP, someone else will just take the result of your R&D and go straight to development and selling; you make the investment, they profit. So, what's the alternative? How do you get people to dump vast amounts of money in research without giving them some mechanism for recuperating their costs? Or will everyone just suit around waiting for someone else to do the research, so they can snatch up the results and start selling product?

Personally, I think R&D should be done by public institutions and funded by the public, and then be IP-free. I'm not certain that it would be a complete solution that replaces the system we currently have, though.

Zoos suck. Put those animals back where they belong. Or eat them.

The state must be abolished. In fact, all forms of hierarchy must be abolished.

I agree with your attitude about IP. For tens of thousands of years humans freely imitated every good idea they saw, in a process known as "the spread of civilization". But then somebody figured out how to make shitloads of money by producing copies of other people's work and paying them a pittance, aka "royalty", and suddenly copying and imitation became immoral.

We should gather up all of the people that pushed the Palestinian genocide (including those that censored or shamed others for speaking up about it) and turn them into a gory pile of steaming meat using the weapons that they used on innocent Palestinians.

I agree, internet protocol is a direct contradiction of nature, sacrificing the advancement of humanity and the world for selfish gain, and therefore is sinful