[pp.int.general] purpose of manifesto

[Richard M Stallman]

    Unfortunately, when it comes to harmful newspeak, the terminology  
    "Intellectual Property" is not really that harmful, compared to the  
    meme that "copyright infringement is theft". That's the real fallacy  
    that needs to be met. The average internet user isn't thinking about  
    "intellectual property" versus "immaterial rights", he is thinking  
    about "sharing" versus "theft".

There is no need to argue about which one is more harmful.
Since both of them are harmful, we should reject them both.

I won't say "intellectual property" is more harmful, but the WAY
it does harm is more subtle and devious.

Both "sharing" and "theft" refer to a concrete, meaningful activity
which we understand; the question is only what to call it.  By
contrast, the term "intellectual property" refers to a congeries of
disparate laws and makes them falsely appear to be a single coherent
thing.