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Democracy in its current state is fundamentally flawed, as it grossly overestimates the knowledge an average voter has about the political climate and the consequences political actions may have in the long run.
The USA is not the country whose political system is closest to democracy. Switzerland is closer for example.
4 supporter.
Piracy should be banned and punished
There is no such thing as "stealing a sale". The closest legal concept is "unfair competition", but: you can't prove that there really is a loss of sales; and pirates aren't competing businesses, they don't sell the files, they share them freely.
3 supporter.
Earth is a common, everyone has the right to receive a share of its riches
Rights are not rewards, e.g. you don't earn the right to free speech, you have it from birth to death.
2 supporter.
Piracy should be banned and punished
You can't prove the loss of income: you don't know that the "pirates" haven't already paid, won't pay later, or would have paid if "piracy" was impossible.
2 supporter.
A universal basic income is the best way to eradicate economic inequality.
Earth is a common, everyone has the right to receive a share of its riches.
2 supporter.
Piracy should be banned and punished
You are assuming that coercing people by law is the only way to get them to financially support your work. Patronage has proven this to be false since before copyright was invented.
2 supporter.
Piracy should be banned and punished
Copyright infringement is not theft, there is nothing that the creator had before but no longer has after.
2 supporter.
The United States' economic system is heading towards collapse.
Non sequitur. The fact that people aren't perfect and sometimes get in more debt than they can pay back isn't proof that the system will eventually collapse.
1 supporter.
A universal basic income is the best way to eradicate economic inequality.
Earth is a common, everyone has the right to receive a share of its riches.
1 supporter.
Earth is a common, everyone has the right to receive a share of its riches
It would be meaningless to grant a right to beings who cannot exercise it.
1 supporter.