[Arelius]

I don't disagree, but I'm ok with taking this one step at a time, and I feel patents, being monopolies on general ideas, not specific realizations of such, are the more obviously worse of the two.

My main point is that some aspects of your argument, say:

> every idea you have was already had by someone else, or someone is having it right now

Hold much stronger specifically regarding patents. Because patents don't govern over unique instances of the same idea, but only specific realizations, and work on such an idea.