Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015)

Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015) by Dylan16807 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:45AM (#14107976)

You're not describing cognitive dissonance. There's nothing inherently incompatible between free sharing and paid creators. It's hard, of course, but most economic issues are hard.

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Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015) by johnfn on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:48AM (#14108011)

I'd argue that an irreconcilable world view - or at least one that you are not capable of reconciling - is cognitive dissonance.

If you CAN reconcile it, you don't have congnitive dissonance. But most people don't get that far.

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Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015) by Dylan16807 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:52AM (#14108052)

If your standard of avoiding cognitive dissonance requires being an economist, it's too high.

It's enough to have a reasonable justification to say that it can be reconciled. There's no need to force the person to do that reconciliation.

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Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015) by johnfn on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:07PM (#14108214)

What I'm saying is that in some cases I do believe it to be irreconcileable.

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Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015) by Dylan16807 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:22PM (#14108374)

Irreconcilable even by a dictator-for-a-day? As far as I'm concerned the idea of a tax that funds content creation is a pretty good existence proof of reconciling those two ideas.

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