From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 14:03:10 MDT
Brian D Williams wrote:
Misuse technology, using technology to commit theft. Using force if
necessary against those who break societies laws is part of the
social contract.
### Sorry if the objections I have to your position might sound a bit like
an ad hominem but I don't know how to express it differently: Your defense
of the mega corporations involved in controlling IP seems to the expression
of a Kohlberg stage five reasoning. Anders and Lee are using arguments more
typical of stage six. I will be difficult to reconcile your positions
because of the different bases for inference, especially since the
transitions between Kohlberg stages rarely if ever are the result of single
threads of logical reasoning - instead they seem to occur by the
accumulation of small, subconscious changes in attitude. Maybe with time
this will happen with one of the sides involved here (I am strongly siding
with Anders and Lee).
Rafal
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