#respecting other peoples labor does not mean every artist should be what john deere is trying to be

[secondwhisper]

Like I'm just thinking back to that time I watched a classmate seriously argue himself into the belief "all historical fiction is fundamentally unethical," because he started at "inglorious basterds made me feel kinda icky" and never took a step back from the discussion forum to think about the endpoints of his arguments.

Some of y'all have stayed on the train from "I have some reservations about ai art generators" to "you cannot incorporate any parts of someone else's art into your own art without their explicit consent," and folks that is one step away from "collages and sampling are evil." Please don't make me see "collages and sampling are evil" discourse. Please.