Why can't I just use songs from my library as ringtones?

If iTunes is so fundamental to the iPhone even being able to be turned on and iTunes already has a built in function to limit any song to any snippet of time shouln't it be a simple call to the same underlying iTunes function to play a song (possibly with a parameter of how long/start and stop points since apparently the mpr files are only like 45 seconds long) to have the iPhone play a song for a ring tone? Haven't we already paid for the right to play the song once off iTunes why should we have to pay it again to buy a ringtone? And why do the ringtones still cost $1 if they aren't even the full song?

There is a technical reason... because that feature is not built into the phone. As for why, no-one here can comment on that.
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