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protocolturelast Monday at 4:21 AM1 replyview on HN

No calling every possible loss due to another persons actions "Stealing" is simplistic. We have terms for all these things, like "intellectual property infringement".

Trying to group (Thing I dont like) with (Thing everyone doesnt like) is an old semantic trick that needs to be abolished. Taxonomy is good, if your arguments are good, you dont need emotively charged imprecise language.


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Oarchlast Monday at 5:24 AM

I literally reused the definition of stealing you gave in the post above.