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You don't need to precisely know about the future to know that inheritance isn't for sharing behavior. Unfortunate it's not really taught properly.

Your problem was a misuse of inheritance, not encapsulation or interfaces.

Many social/legal constructs are for lack of a better term, idiotic. Step back for a second and think about what ownership actually implies? Exclusive control over a scarce resourc…

Appeal to law fallacy.

You're missing the point. Ownership implies the resource is scarce. If the resource is a pattern, which cannot be physically owned and my usage of the pattern doesn't prevent other…

> You can own your likeness. How?

That wasn't my point. We can own physical items, land etc. Because it's a scarce resource. If me "owning" something doesn't prevent you from also "owning" it, the concept of owners…

This whole argument rests on the absurd assumption that you can "own" a voice as if it's property. Does this mean people can own the patterns of vibration in air? It's completely n…