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Asbostos | 10 years ago

> in a millennia copyright is looked back upon with the same disgust and insanity that human sacrifice, child wives, and genital mutilation are

1000 years is enough time for our contemporary culture to change. Those things you listed may even become acceptable by then. Just to compare with what we already accept - capital punishment, abortion, children being controlled by their parents, and even forced to eat food, circumcision.

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zanny|10 years ago

And all are valid examples of potentially backwards thinking, and the many more even us are not recognizing because we have not dedicated the mental energy required to break out of our respectively imprinted expectations of social organization.

I only speak of one example amongst many, but I stand by it being in our best interests to recognize and correct them before they cause too much injury to either individuals or the collective.