From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Mar 05 2005 - 11:59:45 MST
Phil Goetz wrote:
>
> The general flaws in our system of government
> are an entirely separate issue from intellectual
> property. If your reasoning were valid, you
> could attack any implemented policy by pointing
> to abuses of it, which always exist.
Citing any abuse of an implemented policy is a legitimate attack against
that policy, which must be balanced by showing benefits which outweigh
the abuse.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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