[concordDance]

Hating those who play the game can be an effective deterrent to decreasing the number of people who play the negative sum game.

[pylua]

Has this ever been proven or is there a case study on this? I am genuinely curious.

[amelius]

Why do we always have to prove this in one direction? You could take the opposite stance and say that we don't need any patents because look at open source and how stuff is created without anyone being paid crazy sums of money.

[Y-bar]

Why do you feel compelled to carry water for the people participating in behaviour detrimental to society?