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Reinier Bakels wrote:
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<div><font color="#0000ff">Hi Carlos,</font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff">Sorry to say, but I am really surprised
by the way you talk to me.</font> </div>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">I like informal communication, but I urge
you to observe basic principles of politeness. Happy Christmas! <br>
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There were two ways of dealing this issue:<br>
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- you could have asked me, or any of the people participating in the
Manifesto development, about:<br>
* whether the rule of the law, and specifically irretroactivity of
prejudicial changes, was going to be violated by PPI (obviously, no)<br>
* where did I got the arguments to state that <i>intellectual
pro...whatever</i> is not a human right -while author's rights actually
are-<br>
* etc<br>
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- or you could have accused us of being violating human rights, being
indecent, PPI being doomed, etc<br>
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Unfortunately, you chose the second way. So I don't think that you're
the most suitable person to talk about politeness; I mean, don't you
agree on such accusations -specially that of being violating human
rights- are unacceptable and not polite at all? Next time, prior to
making such false accusations, ask first.<br>
<br>
<br>
Carlos Ayala<br>
( Aiarakoa )<br>
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Partido Pirata National Board's Chairman<br>
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P.S.: "<i>To some extent <b>you have to</b> trust me -and, perhaps
more importantly, the logic of what I contend</i>"<br>
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I <i>have to</i>? Forcibly? Not a chance:<br>
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- because of the unacceptable accusations of your former mails<br>
- because you didn't simply disagree with some -few or many- issues of
UN analysis, but you stated about a United Nations paper "<i>I am not
sure about its authority</i>"<br>
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If you are going to discredit the authority of the United Nations -the
organism who developed and approved UDHR- and nonsensical and falsely
accuse us of such bold things, don't be surprised if I don't trust you
for free; I need arguments, otherwise I cannot trust you.<br>
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P.P.S.: And if you are willing to quote great men, let's talk about
Thomas Jefferson -if US Founding Fathers stated that "<i>no man can be
deprived of life, liberty and property without due process of law</i>",
I hope you don't accuse him too of being violating anything concerning
private property-: "<i>he who receives an idea from me, receives
instruction himself
without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives
light without darkening me</i>" -i.e., he who receives an intellectual
work from me, receives it without taking it away from me; thus,
intellectual works are not appropriable, so cannot be considered as
property-. If you search for more recent sources, check stances of many
libertarians -probably the highest supporters of private property (I
talk about libertarians as sources because I'm tired of that <i>you're
attacking private property</i> thing)- on intellectual works (<a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Kinsella">Kinsella</a>, <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_T._Long">Long</a>, etc) to
check that yours is not the only way of thinking about this issue.<br>
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