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[ShadowHM]

Ah, been reading the Brothers Grim again, have you? I went down to the marina just the other week and tried to claim *my* flattop. They just wouldn't believe me when I told them I owned it. Been making payments on it all my life. I had to leave without it.

It is *my* bridge that I cross under every day when I walk to work. I have no desire to re-locate it, but I can and have said some firm and derogatory things to the individuals I have seen defacing the walls. It is evident that the defacing is a continuous process, but it doesn't happen on my watch.

However, you are conflating physical property with intellectual property. If I pass information to you, I still have it.

Might makes right. The might of the government trumps the individual, the might of enough united individuals trumps the government. Maybe not the way it should be, but the way it is. And has been pretty much everywhere and every-when. Individual freedom wasn't born at Runnymede in 1215, individual freedom was born when English kings started to depend on their yeomen and the long bow.

Thanks for the history lesson.

So were you telling me to shut up and let it go? Or what? Because it really all starts with the individual, IMO. If I shut up and let it go, then there didn't even have to be any might involved, did there?

Afterthought: Have you ever actually read the Brothers Grim? Methinks your reference is off. Either that or I missed something in your post.