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>>I don't think it's a decent enough group to share my art with.

So eventually this is not practical put purely political decision because you hate this community you will not let anyone see your work.

same as in my example you believe that those people are not worthy of your work because they do not share your religion and that's all.


>>I already have to get by without selling my work; if it turned out I couldn't sell my work because nobody wanted to buy it I wouldn't be worse off.

No I mean not that people just do not buy your work because they are not interested I mean if they don't buy your work in principle because they hate artists who ask money for their work.
what I mean that you came to some community and offered your art for sale and everyone would say either you post it for free or fuck off and never come back with your spam.
and it would be the same attitude everywhere where you go.

this is the purely hypothetical question of course

>>People who "focus on free artists" are usually not customers and never would be, and just want content for free. And if all an artist wants is praise for handing out free stuff, that's fine, as long as it's their own decision.

This is not about the free decision it is about the inability to sell entirely your decision is either you share it or not. Sale is not one of the options. Either you get the praise of you get nothing.
Giving the option of the sale will tempt artists to try to sell their work.

>>There's nothing illogical about my reasoning, you just don't like my logic. There are not enough benefits for me to outweigh the negatives in posting my work in any way to this community, and therefore I don't. That could not be more logical.

There are no benefits for you in any case because you are not getting paid in any way regardless if copyright is respected or not. Your decision is purely ideological.
At most of your benefit is propaganda value because you are trying to use your work as a tool to influence other people beliefs. even if those beliefs have no direct relevance for your life

But in some way, I can understand that hate based reasoning because I also hate copyright and capitalism itself and will also do anything possible to hurt entire society who try to enforce it, not because of some practical reason but because of hate.

Fortunately for me, the situation is getting better because this capitalist society is collapsing, copyright is unenforceable and all this rotten crap is going to its end.