This will have many benefits, like giving a boost to new creators by ensuring no older media exists for them to compete with or to be accused of plagiarizing
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Also, I will personally no longer have to deal with accusations that my childhood faves are problematic, as they will no longer exist in any form and it will be impossible to definitively prove whose memories are accurate
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The arguments people have over details of old books and shit will become extremely heated and protracted Luckily, those arguments will, themselves, be shortly deleted and forgotten, making this a self-solving problem
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It is my belief that by making it impossible to learn from history, we will indeed be doomed to repeat it, but we will have no knowledge of this fact, and therefore it will not bother us
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That is reasonable. However, it doesn't seem like any data will be irrevocably destroyed, if it's in the public domain.
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So 20 years from now, we’ll revert back to the present state because documentary evidence of your proposal will be deleted.
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Exactly - by its very nature, unless people continue to see this rule as a good idea and organically re-implement it over time, it will cancel itself out in short order What could be more fair
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King Arthur Solomon
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How would you wipe today's music out of existence in 20 years--and why would that improve the human condition? We would also need to eliminate books, poems, news reports, recipes, academic research, movies, paintings. Oh, wait, you were being sarcastic.
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Basically Big Librarian is to blame for the whole problem!
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