You can't enforce good taste.
If people enjoy the sort of music/cinema/literature/software that I consider crap, should I have the right to distort the marketplace by suppressing those "popular" items and assisting "higher quality" alternatives?
No.
The only eventual hope for the eventual victory of aesthetically and functionally superior "product" is human genetic modification.:-)
Sure it's justified...
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And if I suspect that you're a hacker who might endanger me by hacking a power plant or military computer, I have the right to burn your house down.
It'll do OK in the U.S., but will bomb elsewhere
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Anything this heavily promoted will bring in $200M+ Stateside, no matter how crummy it is or how many critics bash it mercilessly.
But that won't change the fact that outside the U.S., no one gives a rat's ass about Pearl Harbor. It's a uniquely American tragedy, and frankly we don't care. Will the remaining $300M required for this movie to break-even come from our pockets? No.
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You can't enforce good taste. If people enjoy the sort of music/cinema/literature/software that I consider crap, should I have the right to distort the marketplace by suppressing those "popular" items and assisting "higher quality" alternatives? No. The only eventual hope for the eventual victory of aesthetically and functionally superior "product" is human genetic modification. :-)
And if I suspect that you're a hacker who might endanger me by hacking a power plant or military computer, I have the right to burn your house down.
Anything this heavily promoted will bring in $200M+ Stateside, no matter how crummy it is or how many critics bash it mercilessly. But that won't change the fact that outside the U.S., no one gives a rat's ass about Pearl Harbor. It's a uniquely American tragedy, and frankly we don't care. Will the remaining $300M required for this movie to break-even come from our pockets? No.