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Understanding that things are nuanced is not the same thing as not having opinions.

You can acknowledge that drinking alcohol can cause addiction, act as a social lubricant, and decide if you want to drink. You can even have an opinion on what you think alcohol's role in society should be and what should be done to prevent drunk driving.

If only artists could hold copyrights to their works, this wouldn't be an issue.

Corporations are usually not the ones who create art, they just hire people who do. If Disney spends an astronomical amount on money on hiring artists and producing a work, there should be a separate set of laws that protects them from someone sweeping in and stealing the franchise or the product. It shouldn't be down to copyright-laws, because Disney isn't an artist.

Copyright also grants the right to opt out of the commercialization of your work. Even if you really like a painting I have done, you should not have the right to demand that I or someone else sell prints of it. If I instead want to just keep it on my Instagram profile, in my attic or hanging on the walls of a gallery, I should be free to do so.

If you make something public people have the right to look at it and to get inspired by it, but I don't think it's unfair to ask that the artist retains the commercial rights to it.

Black/white thinking. Everything is either bad or good, the problem or the solution.

As a hobby artist, I think copyright should exist to protect individual artists commercial rights. Whether I sell my work or not, should be up to me. On the other hand, we should not punish people for finding inspiration in other people's works or using them as wallpapers, and usually we don't.

It should not be legal for H&M to scrape Artstation or Deviantart for images to print on their T-shirts, not even if 20 years have passed since it was posted. If they want to use an image, they should have to contact the artist and get permission first.

I think works owned by corporations is a different beast. Corporations should also be allowed to profit of their works, but I don't think they should be able to hold copyrights as a default. Copyright should protect those who make art, not those who commission art.

Vi kan starte med at sammenlægge public service i Skandinavien, eller alternativt i hele Norden. Det tror jeg ville være til at sluge for de fleste, og det ville bringe os tættere på hinanden, at se flere nyheder og programmer om hinanden, på de andre skandinaviske sprog.

Vi skal selvfølgelig blive ved med at producere både nationalt og lokalt indhold også, men i en mindre grad, og det skal også være tilgængeligt i de andre skandinaviske/nordiske lande.

Not to mention that the only reason electric cars seem somewhat sustainable, is that at the moment only the most wealthy people (globally) can afford to own a car. Just imagine what it would look like if the global middle class also got access to cars, electric or otherwise.

Maybe not high speed, but you could theoretically run a train line from Helsinki to Talinn and Stockholm. In Southern Denmark you could take the train from Rødby to Puttgarden, across the narrow stretch of water that separates Denmark and Germany. The train would just roll aboard the ferry, and then exit at the other end. As far as I know, that line has been closed down temporarily, and will run through the tunnel they're building, when it opens up again.

More realistically, you could work to improve the train-ferry connections. The train should take you all the way down to where you board the ferry, there shouldn't be long waits when you switch from one mode to the other and it should be seamless to purchase a ticket from Helsinki to Berlin, even if part of the trip is on a ferry.

Of course not as fast as traveling over land, but it makes more sense considering the geography, and I personally think it should count as a train connection, if the ferry is included in the train ticket.

Ireland is probably a bit more tricky.

Det forstår folk i Danmark allerede godt. Jeg tror vitterligt aldrig jeg har hørt nogen forsvare dem, som reagerer på hans bogafbrændinger med råb eller trusler. Selv mine muslimske bekendte, synes at de er nogle tåber. Både vold og trusler er ulovligt, så det er heller ikke noget der bifaldes fra samfundets side.

Vi havde allerede diskussionen om de uproportionelle reaktioner der kan komme på kritik af islam, for snart 20 år siden, da Muhammedtegningerne blev trykt. Langt de fleste, anderkender også at der er nogle problemer i visse indvandrermiljøer.

Paludan er ikke nogen Kurt Vestergård eller Yahya Hassan, han er en statsfinansieret racistisk troll. Han lyder desuden som et modbydeligt menneske, selv hvis man ser bort fra hans demonstrationer og politiske aktiviteter, men han fortjener selvfølgelig ikke at blive slået ihjel af den grund.