Unless you value having the original. Imagine a private collector and the head of an art gallery, both happy they have the Mona Lisa. And only the thief who promised the private collector they’d switch it out for a forgery knows which is the forgery, and which, is the original.
Indeed. That maps well to the idea that we value “originals” more for the sake of them being originals, even if they don’t provide any additional utility to us compared to copies besides that fact.
Indeed. That maps well to the idea that we value “originals” more for the sake of them being originals, even if they don’t provide any additional utility to us compared to copies besides that fact.