On 26/02/16 03:50 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > On 26/02/16 21:21, Richard Stallman wrote: >> Copyright is also our only basis for shielding our software from >> being made proprietary through any of those methods. > > If you were being attacked, and you bludgeon your assailant, to stay > them off you, you might argue that it was your only way of saving > yourself. This doesn't mean that bludgeoning people is good. >
It doesn't mean that bludgeoning people / copyright is good. It does mean that bludgeoning people / copyright isn't always wrong. It is, perhaps, morally neutral, or maybe only prima facie wrong, but not intrinsically/always wrong.
