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[feotakahari]

Pissed off some more people by making this argument, so I’ll make it again for good measure: if you don’t read or buy someone’s book, you are doing exactly the same amount of harm as if you pirated someone’s book. Since you don’t buy every book, you are always doing that amount of harm to everyone whose book you didn’t buy. Furthermore, the same issue applies to people who didn’t write a book, but still need money to survive, which is why this isn’t an issue that can be fixed through capitalist consumption alone. Someone who doesn’t have your money doesn’t benefit from your money. Somehow, people keep interpreting this as me saying that authors should starve, when my point is that people are already starving whether they’re authors or not.

Actually, as long as I’m frustrated, I’ll repost the other argument that got a ton of people to block me. People argued for abortion based on bodily autonomy. I thought about anti-vaxxers and their bodily autonomy arguments, and I decided anti-vaxxers are full of shit. This isn’t even an argument against abortion! I’m just saying I can’t reasonably claim bodily autonomy as the defense I’m using for abortion.

It’s frustrating how many of the people I reblog from also reblog from people who have me blocked and will presumably keep me blocked until the end of Tumblr. But at the same time, if I didn’t use anonymous Internet accounts to argue things I think are true, I would never argue them anywhere. I think about all the arguments people made to change my mind, and they just don’t seem very convincing to me.

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[e_jo_m]

I crapped out a response to this, if you desire to read it: https://e-jo-m.dreamwidth.org/2860.html