RE: Morality and downloading
April 13, 2015 at 8:13 pm
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2015 at 8:18 pm by IATIA.)
(April 13, 2015 at 7:15 pm)Napoléon Wrote: [quote='BrianSoddingBoru4' pid='919412' dateline='14289But I really wish people would stop equating piracy with the word "stealing". They're different things.Nope! It is stealing. If one takes something that they are not entitled to, it is stealing. The DVD is not worth $24, it is the information on the DVD that is worth $24. Piracy of that DVD is the same as stealing $24 bucks. Rationalize all you want, but it is still theft of property.
(April 13, 2015 at 7:20 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
So then, taking a hardbacked novel out of a bookshop without paying doesn't qualify as theft, correct?
Boru
And if I take a car from a car dealer, they have lots of cars and they are insured also.
Hell, I should just go rip off the Federal Reserve. They can just print more money up.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
