Its odd that you and I can agree here but have different views on
intellectual property. What I am proposing is that intellectual property
be fully recognized as a basic human right (part of the natural law
thing), possibly THE basic human right, and that patents, copyrights,
trademarks etc are merely government recognition of individuals
exercising these rights in acts of creation.
In this manner, one's DNA is considered wholly the property of the
individual that originated from them. Twins would be joint owners, and
clones would have a sort of dual parent/twin sibling relationship,
differentiated by the ages of each individual. By bundling up all these
essential human rights as one interrelated concept of the individual, an
attack on one is seen as an attack on the whole, as opposed to today's
political scene of pick and choose human rights. Liberals like
expression, choice etc for the individual, and everything else for the
state, and conservatives like self protection, life, and property for
the individual and everything else for the state. Very little is seen as
a holistic concept.
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