Morality and downloading

[bennyboy]

I am really disappointed at all the twisting, turning and gyrating done in this thread by some to rationalize stealing and we keep telling the christians that we have as good or better morality without their god's intervention.  I guess that depends on one's interpretation of morality.  Whatever description that makes it ok.  It is like the bible-thumpers plethora of interpretations for their bullshit.

And those so-called "people that would never buy anyway" would certainly buy if it were absolutely impossible to get and have copies in any other possible way.

You sound like you are pretty strong in your moral sense.  But what is the basis of this confidence?  Given a lack of objective morality (i.e. from God), morality is subjective-- it is a matter of social interactions, emotions, and the evolution of ideas in reponse to new environments.  And the internet definitely represents a new moral environment, and requires new reflection on what is right or wrong about it.  And yet your confidence also reflects some hypocrisy, for you state your moral idea as a "thou shalt not"-- an unthinking, hands-over-the-ears statement of what is right that is confident exactly because it requires no consideration. To speak so unambiguously about something that many in your culture see as ambiguous represents hubris, no?