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Respecting a widely acknowledged property right isn't a political stance. Nor is it indoctrination to teach kids to respect other peoples work.


Respecting a widely acknowledged property right is a political stance when widely acknowledged exceptions to that right are left aside. There's also the controversial subtopic of draconian policing of violations of those rights in recent years.

Copyright is not a topic for small children. Adults are barely grown up enough to discuss it.

EDIT: Forgot to mention the also controversial subtopic of expiration and lack thereof.


If I remember correctly, on the last day of student senate my junior year of high school(the only day I have been to it), they described their plan for the first one or two days of the next year using the term indoctrinate wrt "school spirit".

They didn't seem to see anything strange about that.

It's possible they used a slightly different word, but I am probably more than 90% sure that at the time I thought they had just said indoctrinate.

(note:I am only a senior in highschool, just in case that is useful in explaining why I think things or why I don't have as much experience with things, etc.)


It is exactly indoctrination.




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