Re:Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end pa...
by tambourine_man on Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:31AM
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Saying you would use the rules to your advantage even though you disagree with them is very much hypocritical.
You may not agree with Wikipedia's definition of hypocrisy. That's fine, find another. But practicing the opposite of what you believe fits it perfectly.
Re:Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end pa...
by jchavannes on Thursday October 18, 2012 @02:51AM
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Didn't realize skulls could be so thick. This tangent on defining hypocrisy belongs somewhere else.
As in, there is no contradiction or hypocrisy if someone explicitly states their ordered preferences like this:
1) The law states that everyone gets one vote, I vote once.
2) The law states that college grads get two votes, I vote twice.
3) The law states that college grads get two votes, I vote once.
Jeff Bezos isn't opposing patents on moral grounds; he thinks that there would be economic benefit to everyone, including his company, to get rid of them. It would be of economic benefit to only everyone but Amazon if only Amazon abstained from having patents.