On 9/2/16 5:15 PM, Razer wrote:


On 09/02/2016 01:03 PM, juan wrote:


Why should rand get to write novels using ideas she stole from other pople?

Because she was a LIBERTARIAN. That means your ethics STOP if they
interfere with taking what you want. Feudalism with a less-frowned upon
name to fool the rubes.

   You can't 'steal' ideas except in the narrow sense of trying to
   convince everyone that you invented an idea first even when you know
   you took it from someone else.  Or in using ideas in a way that require
   a license, like patents.  Philosophy isn't patentable, so unless she
   insisted that no one else had thought of a particular idea, that kind
   of statement seems childish.
   Now, if you want to use 'steal' in the weak sense, that it would have
   been better if a different take would have become more popular, that's
   fine.  That's 'stealing the limelight'.  That's some combination of
   luck and lack of skill.  She had some roughness, but she wrote
   reasonably readable stories, so she won to some extent.  Write your own
   more compelling stories.
   But "why should rand get to write" is odd.  Anyone can write whatever
   story they want, minus directly stealing characters etc.

Rr


   sdw