I don't think there's anything remarkable about the fact that two
people reach different conclusions about something. We were brought
up with different pedjudices, different life experiences, different
abilities. That doesn't mean the underlying mechanisms of thought
are different between us (although it might--especially if the two
people involved are of different genders). It just means that we
have had different inputs, processed them in the normal way, and
that I'm better at it. :)
Contentious philosophical and political issues like intellectual
property law are especially prone to disagreement, because the inputs
are unclear--even historical ones; there are hundreds of variables
in human behavior; and concepts like moral desert are not easy to test.
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