On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 16:34 -0500, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Craig Haynie <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 16:01 -0500, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > > Someone here suggested that the best solution to this > problem would be > > for governments to throw a large pile of money that everyone > involved > > in the initial development of cold fusion. I think that > would probably > > be a good idea. > > I hope that Fleischmann and Pons get a large chunk of > > it. Rossi deserves a lot too. Many people do. > > > When we start talking about morality, I feel a need to step > in... > > It's not good to take money from people who do not want to > give it up, even if someone has a 'noble' way in which to use > it. If you are I did this, it would be called theft. > > > I do not understand this argument. Fleischmann, Pons, Rossi and many > others have intellectual property rights. They invented cold fusion. > They deserve a patent just like any other inventors. History and > circumstances probably will deny them this patent, so they deserve > compensation.
But you're not proposing a solution within a moral framework. You're advocating that people take money from those who may not want to give it, and then give it to those to whom you believe deserve it. Taxation is theft because it sits outside of any moral framework and rests on the foundation that 'might makes right'. This is the same principle that legitimized slavery. I fully support their claims to intellectual property, but that's where the battle should be fought. Craig
