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The needs of a few never outweigh the needs of the many.

Shutting down videos to millions of potential viewers because the recorders did not have the time nor money to produce transcripts, gains nothing / takes away everything.

If things were really fair, we should be able to now sue the complainants for taking away from us everything that could have resulted from viewing the course material.

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>The needs of a few never outweigh the needs of the many.

This is, uhh, kind of false. In liberal democracies like the US, we have some extraordinarily protections for the needs of the few at the expense of the many. For example, we've ruled as unconstitutional anti-miscegenation laws. The founding fathers were explicitly worried about the tyranny of the majority, too.

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