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Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected by baybal2 on Thursday July 05, 2018 @02:19PM (#17465504)
>assembling lists of peoples' names that are your opponents

If you want to defeat your opponents, a great thing to do. Keep track of them. The best service you can give to an enemy, is to forget him.

>My opponents are bad laws and bad ideas. Let's make lists of those.

Don't you think that bad ideas are possessed by bad people?

In my view of the world, the root of all good and bad are the people. People's deeds and ideas don't live separate lives from physical human beings having/doing them.

Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected by jeffdavis on Thursday July 05, 2018 @03:36PM (#17466142)
My opponents are bad laws and bad ideas. Let's make lists of those.

Individual people may have both good ideas and bad ideas, and those may change over time.

Lists of opponents' names are a really bad solution because they ignore the distinction between people and ideas.

Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected by ryandrake on Thursday July 05, 2018 @03:53PM (#17466265)
Ideas can’t be shamed or ostracized. Ideas don’t respond to incentives. Ideas can’t engage in debate. Trying to fight ideas is futile without also opposing the people with boots on the ground implementing the ideas.