What should I do with people who are not discussion partners?

How to treat in a cultured and civilized manner when someone refuses to admit that he is wrong, or even that he is stupid about something.

I admit if I don't know something:

e.g. I don't know how to program discrete mathematical functions or cryptographic algorithms.

But e.g. I didn't even know what the "fleshlight" was - that was made a meme about it. Although I didn't even want this knowledge, but: thanks for the info, now I know :-)

But if someone says that: there is no such thing as Intellectual Property, and he or she thinks that everything that is digital can be freely copied, and he/she can even makes money from what he/she copied from someone else without the author's permission. What should I do with this?

Tell this to artists who want to sell their own work on a webshop and advertise their artwork here in Nostr. Instead, someone else copies it, prints the photo, painting, and makes money out of it. Not for the artist, but for himself/herself.

Or say it to those who advertise their paid adult content websites here on Nostr. Instead, someone makes these contents available without any permission and even makes money from these contents for himself/herself.

It's all intellectual property, like it or not. And it is indeed a violation of copyright if this is not permitted (usually from the author).

But there are persons who do not consider it illegal to claim someone else's artwork, book, invention, or software as their own.

Tell that to Einstein, Picasso, Dali, Tolstoy, or e.g. to Linus Torvalds.

IMO there is no point in talking to such a person anymore.

Please correct me if

I'm wrong!