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Originally Posted by molson
And I think there's an element of "my toys are necessary and valuable and yours are stupid and worthless". It's pretty easy to oppose a right that you yourself don't value, I think we see that in all kinds of contexts. When people see gun owners as "compensating for small dicks" and "jerking off to red dawn fantasies", you can see how this debate is as much about cultural superiority as it is about policy. We want to keep our toys but take away other peoples' toys that we don't approve of, or whom we feel superior too. Or at least, that becomes the perception, so you can see why the other side digs in - it's not a policy argument, it's really an attack on them personally.
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Yeah, exactly. I mean whenever any kind of internet regulation comes up all the internet users start crying about freedoms. And usually that means "Don't take my Napster Mp3s/torrents/freeporn away from me!"