#morality and ethics in general
our stance on copyright is somewhere between “it needs to be hella loosened” and “it should be abolished entirely” depending on our mood when you ask us, but “you were abusive to your OC so they belong to the public now and you lose all rights” is definitely swinging the pendulum too far in the other direction lmao
it has been my theory for a bit that by default fandom spaces end up on the implicit opinion that intellectual property is real but only for the people they like, and this seems yet another expression of that.
pirating a movie is fine not because intellectual property shouldn’t be a thing, but because fuck disney. using your friend’s OC without permission, though, only a monster would do that. it belongs to them. unless they’re a bad person in which case fuck them.
