Do You Own Your Thoughts? Prominent, Self-Proclaimed Libertarians Say "No."
An interesting Facebook thread on an interesting topic for libertarians.
FB THREAD HERE: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=742438505940233&id=100005222707055
Interesting to note that according to Kinsella's position in the above-referenced OP (see link above/image below) Crusoe on his desert island, if he built a house, would not own it, and so it would not be a property violation if a government from overseas sent a missile over, blowing it to smithereens! This isn't nuts!? C'mon guys.
~KafkA
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You own your thoughts, until they leave your mouth.
Ideas can almost never be equal, although they could be equivalent. Two people could therefore end up with equivalent thoughts and transmit them to the world in any shape or form which will carry minor differences certainly. We could then say that you can own your thoughts as they are original in the smallest of details, at least.
You got it!
Damn, nice grammar, I want your grammar skills in English.
If somebody else, a government, law enforcement or authority is making the decision as to whether we own our thoughts or not, then we certainly do not own out thoughts, the deciding power does.
Great point!
If you allow a/the government to make your decision then you are right otherwise the statement is incorrect.
As far as I know, they do not have a way to pull the idea out of your head.
"Legally recognized" has nothing to do with it.
Thoughts are happening, but you have to be able to resonate with something to bring it to life as an idea, so its yours.
i don't get why you cant say you own a banana and the fruit inside it too. They are both true. so i should be able to say i own my idea if it is now already out there.
haha, this sounds like the next step for corporate america... they will patent thought so we can't even think without paying a royalty to the oligarchs !!! makes total business sense, economic sense, authoritarian sense
Thata how the state department shut down Cody Wilson's site. They claimed that him sharing 3d gun plans online violated their arms IP. Like they can control who talks about guns?
Usually your thoughts own you, but I do believe it to be possible to reverse the process. Will probably require lots of meditation and a certain mindset to accomplish this though.
I have to admit that non-violent views from both camps are compatible with an Anarcho-Capitalist social order, and that personally I am a little on the fence, with a copyleft leaning regarding DRM.
Death to violent patents, licences, copyrights and other state favoritism though.