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Of All The Creative Work Produced By Humans Anywhere, A Tiny Fraction Has Continuing Commercial Value. For That Tiny Fraction, The Copyright Is A Crucially Important Legal Device.

Companies Will Often Use The Legal System To Scare People Away From Attacking Them. But We All Should Be Free To Make Critical Statements About Anybody, Unless Those Statements Are Malicious.

If There Were Two Candidates, A Democrat And A Republican, Who Each Committed To The Same Kind Of Fundamental Reform, Then The Election Would Be An Election Between The Vice Presidential Candidates. It'd Be Just Like The Regular Election, Except It Would Be One Step Down.

If The Law Imposed The Death Penalty For Parking Tickets, We'd Not Only Have Fewer Parking Tickets, We'd Also Have Much Less Driving.

As More And More Citizens Express What They Think, And Defend It In Writing, That Will Change The Way People Understand Public Issues. It Is Easy To Be Wrong And Misguided In Your Head. It Is Harder When The Product Of Your Mind Can Be Criticized By Others. Of Course, It Is A Rare Human Who Admits That He Has Been Persuaded That He Is Wrong. But It Is Even Rarer For A Human To Ignore When He Has Been Proven Wrong. The Writing Of Ideas, Arguments, And Criticism Improves Democracy.