There are people who believe that this entire existence is created for them who were made specially by the Creators in the image of the Creators themselves.
To support that believe, a common example cited by these people, in what seems so obvious to them (unlike people like me), is the number of things 'created' by humans and thus how humans 'control everything around us'.
Thus, we have people like those in this article who think they had 'created' something new which therefore belongs to them (that's what patenting means if you are new to this game).
They thus think that they have the right to milk other humans for it (that's the only thing patenting facilitates if you are new to the history of the last century.)
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040726/03
However, what these people refuse (or try to avoid) to accept is that all they had done was discovered and played with the rules of Nature.
Admittedly, that's not a feat that other creatures or life-forms are capable of, thus the arrogance that gave rise to some people's believe that began a couple of thousand years ago (if you know what humans were capable of a couple of thousand years ago, that is a huge dose of supreme idiotic arrogance!).
If anything, all these certain humans had done is observed, analysed, understood and tweaked the way Nature is (and will always be till kingdom come, er, or for some idiots, till their king come again).
Another way of putting it is that the mouse that those people 'created' will not exist if the rules of Nature do not allow it. They had not created anything new, they merely tweaked Nature so that it expresses Itself in a new way (in the form of a new mouse). They can do that as long as they stay within the boundaries of Nature's laws.
What the other humans are saying is that hey we might have discovered a way of manipulating one aspect of Nature but we do not understand at all what its long term effects are on the entire eco-system on Earth (Earth only, a small speck in Nature's creation, hor). So, recognise but don't give exclusive rights to such discoveries if we cannot determine its effects (for those unGodlike ones that don't understand patenting, patent laws, not Nature's laws hor, require anyone who try to use, replicate, reproduce a method or outcome to get permission, after paying royalty, from their 'creators' before doing so. Hey, some people are more godlike than others?).
Another way of looking at this is this. Telling me that you have discovered that pressing a green button on a machine causes it to spit fire is fine and good but what the hell is the machine also doing? If we don't know, we had better make sure anyone that wants to take a look at the machine be allowed to do so without having to get permission from that guy that is pressing the green button.
If those people were to be more concerned about what effect their 'creations' will have on Nature as opposed to making more money through their patents, we would have less quibble.
But then, if that happens, there will be a lot less reason$ to be arrogant humans - which is very unGod-like for many followers of those supreme idiot$ from a few millenia ago....
Patents for Idiots:
Modern medicine and patenting started when some money hungry idiots realised that they could have made tonnes of money if they had laid their hands on what people like Fleming & Louis Pasteur discovered.
They now call those idiots' ideas capitalism & free market, and I can show you many an idiot that will swear by the greatness of these ideas. Over the last decade or so, the chief practitioner of these ideas, the US, had been trying to help the world progress along by doing a few things:
1. accord rights to the person who register any new discovery with their patent office regardless of whether the process or method had in fact been in use already. That means that one can steal an idea from another if that other is not fast or greedy enough to patent it. A good example are all the traditional cures from all cultures around the world which is why countries from Brazil, to South Africa, to India and China are up against them.
2. to extend the duration for patent rights especially medicine to 25 years from present 10-15 year (based on millenia old concept of the longer you milk the fatter you get)
3. doing bilateral agreements outside of the WTO to get other countries to agree on the above arrangements outside the know of the common people.
Some of you like me may wonder why smart people like Fleming and Pasteur are so dumb as not to come up with those same ideas. Such great minds usually don't do something for a good reason. Perhaps they understand that making money and milking others is like pressing a green start button on a fire spitting machine in a house of cards. Within Nature's laws and human-like, but perhaps undesirable and unGod-like.
But then the smarter capitalist idiots ask: how do we know for sure something is not so good? If we don't, we cannot judge and therefore should not change or stop others from doing something. It is within each individual's so-called 'rights' to do what they want, as long as it is done on a willing buyer willing seller basis. But if that's the case, why force (in some cases by killing) others to pay royalty, practice capitalism, stop selling WMDs to others, and so on?
Hah, those are different things entirely for those who don't do that are evil empires... sounds familiar?
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