Respect for ideas, women and peace

An idea, what is an idea?

"According to the Trésor de la langue française informatisé, the term idea evokes "what the mind conceives or can conceive, [...] anything that is represented in the mind, as opposed to phenomena concerning affectivity or action."

Uses and Applications

In everyday language: "I'm looking for an idea," "Do you have an idea?" to do or to avoid that...  and more specifically in heuristic creativity, an idea is a new and adapted solution to the interlocutor's problem (something that solves their problem in an unexpected way, something effective that they hadn't thought of or considered)."

Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id%C3%A9e

2 things are worth remembering in this definition. An idea is a creation of the mind and an idea is also a concept that answers a problem. An idea is therefore a product associated with its author and a key that will open the door to a universe of answers. 

What vision do today's professionals have on the idea?

Today, everywhere, ideas that create the world are considered worthless. Whereas without ideas, there are no projects and therefore nothing would exist. It is strange to see this phenomenon where the idea that is the origin of everything, that is the essence of everything is voluntarily removed from the prosperity and posterity of their authors. 

"The principle is simple: ideas are an unlimited resource and it is very unlikely that you are the only one with a specific idea, what matters then is the decision to bring it to life and how to execute it.

Startups are rarely based on new concepts. Entrepreneurs are frequently inspired by concepts that are all the rage elsewhere. And, when they do develop new concepts, entrepreneurs often see a competitor emerge a few months before or after their launch.  The classifieds, marketplaces, and ride-sharing markets are good examples. Did they steal an idea or develop the same obvious concept?"  

Source: Can we talk about idea theft in the startup world? - April 2026 -
https://www.wamda.com/2016/04/peut-on-parler-de-vol-idee-dans-le-monde-des-startups

This is a social norm, but is it a fair and normal norm in a healthy society?

An idea is a creation of a mind that can be recognized along several dimensions

The idea carries with it the definition of its value, but that value is being abused by our prevailing economic systems. It seems important to me to put the nose in the middle of the face. 

Statements are heard like  "It is not the idea that has value, but the object that is created with the idea that is going to be registered in the form of patents or patents, for example." Or, "Ideas are just hot air, as long as you don't find an economic application for them. Or, "Ideas can be stolen because they have no value."

Personally, I can't agree with these views. First of all, because I have been creating concepts for more than 30 years for mass retail, for digital technologies... And, the original idea is that good idea that will develop the best projects to create the best products.

"In 2015, Salma Tabiat and a friend launched a clothing brand, whose name they do not want to disclose, in a tourist village in Morocco. The concept: to hunt for timeless clothes in the souks and reinvent them by incorporating traditional Berber fabrics. Soon, locals began copying their creations and selling them for half the price at local markets.

"It was difficult. I felt like my product wasn't unique anymore," she explains to Wamda. But it wasn't just her morale and motivation that took a hit. She says locals pressured their suppliers to stop working with them or raise their prices.

"It didn't change our success, but it took a lot of energy," she continues. "I learned that it doesn't matter, we are stronger in online sales, marketing and recycling (which was our original ambition). We don't sell a product but a style, a lifestyle that speaks to people."

The two friends began to focus less on the local market and more on the international market. "I remember saying, 'Let's let them have the tourists, we can have the rest of the world, charge a higher price and pay our employees better."

Source: Can we talk about idea theft in the startup world? - April 2026
https://www.wamda.com/2016/04/peut-on-parler-de-vol-idee-dans-le-monde-des-startups

This original idea has a lot of value, perhaps more than any product or app, but it is not recognized for its true worth.

Why? Simply, because the sender of the idea, the creative, the one who gives life to the idea, is not recognized either as an essential and valuable being even if without him or her, nothing would be possible. 

That one or that one are matrices from which everything will be built. But no diploma in the world values this knowledge. No education in the world transmits this knowledge. It's as if this ability to create ideas is so natural that like in nature everyone can use it. It's free for everyone.

This is a parallel that can also be made with other natural matrices such as the womb of women or the planet earth. These matrices that give life but are considered in many places in the world as worthless because free, a gift given randomly to a genus or a star. To give birth to an idea, to a project, is a natural ability so it is also free and moreover does not require diplomas. 

Despoil people of the value of their creations make them victims

Working for some years with communities of victims, I have long made another parallel that I summarize here: when we allow ourselves to steal ideas, it is that we appreciate the potential of an idea but not its value in the hands of its author. This idea is often stolen, to do business, from a sensitive being whose value is not recognized either by extension since one allows oneself to hurt him in his soul and that perhaps this action will deprive him of his future.

If a copier allows himself to hurt a creative then he does not respect his sensitivity, nor his soul which apparently therefore have no value for this same thief. Let's remember that slavery laws, which were common 200 years ago, were based on the following belief: slaves have no souls, therefore they can be exploited, molested, sold and killed. Let us remember in the opposite sense that in the Western Middle Ages, animals were judged in court for their crimes because they had a soul and therefore a value for society, positive or negative.

"In 1479 in Lausanne, the cockchafer having infested the territory and caused a famine in the country, were summoned before the ecclesiastical court which excommunicated them. The chancellor of Berne advised to sue in the name of the republic before the bishop's court: the lawyer Perrodet, who had recently died, was appointed to defend them. The other parties did not appear either, but the ecclesiastical court presided over by the bishop condemned the hannetons in absentia. They are "excommunicated, proscribed in the name of the Holy Trinity, and condemned to leave all the lands of the diocese of Lausanne."

Source: wikipedia - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proc%C3%A8s_d%27animaux

What has a soul has value and what has no soul has no value.

And, one can only excommunicate beings that have a soul. So, medieval jackasses were more valuable than slaves.

"The right of self-defense, which belongs to every human being, does not belong to the enslaved Negro. He may not ride a horse or bear arms without express permission. He has no right to come and go, and cannot leave the plantation or the neighborhood he inhabits without a valid permit; even this permit becomes useless if more than seven Negroes are together on the public highway: they are then in contravention, and the first white man who meets them can have them seized and inflict twenty lashes. The slave is a thing and not a man, and those who transport him from one place to another are responsible for his loss or for accidents that may happen to him, as they would be for the loss or damage of a package or any other merchandise. The law has decreed that slaves have no souls; it has condemned to death their intelligence and their will, it lets only their arms live. Slaves have no soul! Such is the principle that gives rise to so many crimes; it is the impure source from which a torrent of iniquities overflows in great streams upon America."

Source: The Black Code of the Recluse Slave
http://futurenoir.free.en/index_htm_files/the%20code%20black%20and%20the%20recluse%20slaves.pdf

The plight of the American Indians also turned on this very question, the answer to which did not seem natural to all.

"Five hundred years ago, a debate took place as to whether the American Indians had a soul. This was the famous controversy of Valladolid. Even if today the question makes us smile, at the time it presented big stakes.  It was a question of knowing if it was necessary to consider these Indians as men, or not! The cultural shock was a challenge. Our beautiful Western culture did not imagine that one could live with so many differences. Fortunately, the Pope had finally concluded that these beings were people created by God in the same way as others."

Source: Do Indians have a soul? When Cultural Difference Surprises - April 2016
https://www.larebellution.com/2016/04/22/indiens-ont-ame-difference-culturelle-surprend/

Unfortunately the Pope could not save them from extermination, the doubt was social, therefore normative. And, normative doubt about the worth of people can lead to tragedies like the Holocaust or the mass killings in Africa for example.

So, by social extrapolation, what is to stop thieves or exploiters from stealing or even killing the one who is considered to have no worth. There is a direct link between this social norm that declares ideas to be worthless, women's childbearing to be worthless, nature to be worthless and crimes including crimes against humanity considered normal in the eyes of those who perpetrate them. There is of course a touch of social boundaries and morality that are absent here in this article and would require more development.

What makes the difference between a patent and an idea?

An idea born or hatched from a natural process. Simple or complex, the idea is the certainly complex fruit of a maturation of thought but it does not require force or engineering work and it does not come from the technical material manufacture of the serious world of humans who finance, sell, capitalize. A world managed for nearly 5 centuries almost exclusively by men if we except the last 70 years. 

There is however the notion of copyrights for ideas thought out and therefore structured. They make it possible to validate the anteriority and thus the paternity of a project but hardly protect against patents which would have been deposited by copiers.

"The stage of an idea for an inventor

The stage of fertilization of an idea, following a problem, following a discovery accident of tests, etc. That allows to have an opening to a reflection, to allow to answer the problem. The idea is born and we start to test the idea, by personal prototype, validation prototype to confirm that technically, it is reliable and also to see if there is not improvement to be made. After the inventor deposits an envelope Soleau or a Copyright to allow him to prove that at the date of the deposit, he really had this idea.

The stage of an invention for an inventor

The stage of the title of Industrial Property, if the idea is technical, it is by an application for a patent and if it is a visual idea, it is by a deposit drawing and model. Before that, you have to do an anteriority search to be sure that nobody had the idea before. Then the realization of a physical or virtual demonstration prototype."

Source: Invention - Europe
https://invention-europe.com/2020/03/24/quelle-est-la-difference-entre-une-innovation-une-invention-et-une-idee/

By its natural nature, the idea is feminine while the patent, on the other hand, is of masculine essence. Women create matter and men work with matter and give it value. This matter can be ideas, but also children who are often educated according to the paternal principles of the society where they live. And so children are shaped in the image of their fathers to enter a masculine world regulated by their fathers for many centuries.

What associated reflection on feminists or feminist movements that calls for equality between men and women.

The world today is often unfair to women, there is something to be done, but, is equality based on a male model the right method because when women menstruate, when women have children,... If we continue to institute equality based on masculinity, where is the real equality for women? Where is the reciprocity? While the balance of masculinity-based equality seems fair in fact in its essence, it is completely unfair. 

"Every day, girls and boys witness gender inequalities in their homes and communities, in textbooks, in the media, and between the adults who care for them.

Sometimes the burden of domestic work is unevenly distributed between parents, with mothers shouldering the bulk of caregiving and household chores. In addition, the majority of low-skilled, poorly paid community health workers who care for children are women with limited opportunities for professional development."

Source: UNICEF - Gender Equality: https://www.unicef.org/fr/egalite-des-genres

Yet, it's right there in front of our eyes: by virtue of childbearing women have limited professional opportunities. It's all about how we look at things. And if we valued childbirth, and if we valued ideas, wouldn't we be tipping the world not toward inadequate equality but rather toward gender equity? To value the matrices, to value the products of the matrices or to value them or give them back...who knows maybe in forgotten history the matrices were powerful?

The way to reshape an idea is also fundamental.

An idea is a key that can open up multiple fields of possibility. There is the fundamental idea that is perfect as such and the hybrid idea that is modified by shall we say the copier of the idea. Why is this important? Today in some countries stealing ideas from colleagues is commonplace. Even patents can be stolen and the patent system and in particular the American one favors these actions by granting Patents to the first one to say.

Let's take a well-known example in the public square: one day an American on vacation in Mexico and he sees on his way some beans unknown to him in his country the United States of America. He takes a handful of beans in his pocket and returns home. He quickly patented these beans at the patent office, which validated his application. A few months later, all the Mexican farmers who grow these beans are ordered to pay a fee to this American...

"Biopiracy, that is to say the appropriation of traditional plants and remedies by large companies, is beginning to run up against the law. In a landmark court decision, the United States overturned a patent on a Mexican bean that a Colorado seed company had filed. The patent allowed the company to receive money for every pound of the bean that Mexico exported to the U.S., even though it had been grown south of the Rio Grande for centuries. The FAO as well as other international organizations filed a lawsuit and the yellow bean once again belongs to Mexican farmers."

Source: Mexican Beans: Failure to Patent Life - July 2008
https://www.inter-networks.org/resource/mexican-beans-failed-to-patent-the-living/

Thankfully, the Mexican state was watching over the situation and negotiated with diplomacy a return to normalcy because these beans belong to mother nature and have been feeding the Mexican people for several millennia. Thus, Mother Nature, women and creators of ideas are in the same boat. They can be pillaged at will and must be left alone unless a power comes to restore the balance. But, this is quite rare, even very rare.

The idea of creating an identity for Nature would pay her her the same way as for human beings and a bank account and every time someone every time someone patents a living thing, it would be fair to pay royalties that pay royalties that could be used to create projects that that are positive for our planet and any project that is good for nature. Nature.

What usually happens when someone hijacks someone else's idea?

The idea copier will take the idea, but often, in the majority of cases, it only has the appearance of the idea. It's kind of like having a DNA code but with lots of holes in it and lots of unknowns. So, our idea borrower will have to hybridize his booty with his own DNA, and thus his own interpretation of what may be missing in his knowledge of the original idea. The principle is to fill the holes. But, even when filled, each hole will be a weak link in the edifice.

In reality, you can't really steal an idea 100%. Fortunately for the original creators of the idea. But, sometimes it goes wrong because if the original creator doesn't have the money to to develop his project or if the thief is a structure with great financial Not to mention the fact that a hybridization can be like a graft and therefore it can be rejected or like a fusion and then it can even become dangerous as in some fields like artificial intelligence. Imagine two horses having children, that makes foals but imagine a donkey impregnating a mare. There, it makes a shingle and a shingle by definition is a sterile animal with genetic problems. For my part, it seems more reasonable to hire the author of the ideas or buy his ideas from him rather than steal them.

How can we be proactive about these situations in schools and universities?

Schools are meant to make well-made heads so let's give them the keys to create projects, universes, declensions of beautiful quality ideas with real values at the core of respecting ideas, respecting others... up to the respect of the right to peace. And through this create positive ecosystems for these girls, young girls and young women by integrating their differences as a treasure for humanity.

As well as our primary matrix, planet earth would also benefit greatly from teachings on the value of ideas, children and its fruits. This is the real key to achieving an equitable balance between men and women. And, respect for each other is a fundamental key to peace.

Pixabay image: Davysudan