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>>In at least one case (mine), people's attitudes regarding copyright and piracy have resulted in an artist not posting work to GuroChan.

Ok, fine so your point is that if there was no piracy at all and nobody ever copied anything without permission from the author or at least if everyone was a member of copyright church, you would disregard all risks and post those few pictures on gurochan for free?

Just from the practical perspective, do you think you and other artists like you, will post more free content than it gathered from behind those paywalls?

Even if this ideology prevents some artist from posting stuff, it also makes a lot of artists to post their stuff. Piracy makes selling unprofitable and not worth a hassle. This is why artists will disregard that option as nonviable and just post what they make for free.
If copyright was highly enforced this would make many more artists consider the option of sale instead of free distribution because if you can make extra money from your hobby with no effort why not?

My desire is to abolish all copyright entirely to make it clear that you will not be able to sell anything ever so you either post for free or do not post at all. yes, this will result in less work being made but it makes more work being posted for free so benefits highly outweigh drawbacks.

Also, the refusal of some artists to sell their work, forces their potential customers to focus on the free artists what motivates them to post even more.

GPL license works in a similar way. Many companies and people are forced to release their work for free or not to release it all but they can't make money of their own work or control it in any way.
The result is obvius, Linux ended with the huge amount of free content even people who potentially could sell their work give it for free simply because there is huge disrespect for capitalists and plain refusal to cooperate with people like that entirely.

Imagine the situation if copyright was respected in 100% but people would just tell you categorically that nobody will pay to you for your work and you can keep it behind your precious paywall without customers for all eternity. Would it make you happier ?

Linux community achieved something like that and it is a loss of prestige to pay for software there, if you buy something everyone will wonder and ridicule you why you paid if same can be obtained for free.

>>Also, if I were to post something on GuroChan and say, "hey, please don't spread this around", there's no way I could trust them.

Of course, you can always trust thousands of anonymous people. LOL
I guess Pamela Just forgot to tell her boyfriend not to spread their homemade porn on the internet.

>>But if you're content that you've got enough material to look at and you don't need more, then you don't have anything to argue about, do you?

I am not arguing about your decision itself I am arguing about your illogical reasoning which is comparable to the claim that "I will not share this work because some people here are not vegetarians and those who kill and eat animals do not deserve my work."

If you do not try to make money off your work you have full respect here including your desire not to repost your pictures if your goals are to sell your work you can just keep it and not bother because nobody cares about you or your work and your request to respect your rights. In fact, posting samples of commercial your work will be considered spamming and you will get as much love and respect as any spammer.