[egypturnash]

Okay.

What do you make? What do you make to pay the bills; what do you make for passion? How would you feel about people pirating what you make to pay the bills?

Even if you are 100% open source everything for free forever, do you acknowledge that other people may be looking to their creative work as a source of income, and may want a more restrictive license on their work? Do you feel they are morally wrong to ever want to be paid for all the time and labor that goes into performing their craft, and probably into paying off their absurd student loans as well?

[icebraining]

We all want legal privileges, nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't mean society should grant them. "I want" is not an argument. If people can't live off of doing some activity, they have to choose whether they can afford to keep doing it or not.

Student loans, and obligations in general that people have contracted with certain expectations, only justify that we take a "softer" approach, it doesn't change the argument.

[mdpopescu]

Thank you; I got downvoted when I said "I (don't) want" is not an argument. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941486

[gress]

This is a great argument which implicitly favors maximizing privilege for the already rich.