RE: Morality and downloading
April 15, 2015 at 11:45 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2015 at 12:07 am by bennyboy.)
(April 15, 2015 at 11:18 pm)IATIA Wrote:(April 15, 2015 at 10:27 pm)bennyboy Wrote: ... should Youtube unplug the audio because Metallica's lawyers' lawyers' minions are pissed that I didn't arrange a license?Yes, or else where does the line get drawn? Others arrange for licensing rights, what makes you different?
Hmmm. Moral high-horse or corporate whore? You've chosen Metallica's $0.10 over my right to share moments of my life with others. Can I ask you what your profession is?
But to answer your question: I'm king of my own existence. I don't need to be influenced by superstitious Christian ideas of absolute morality, and at any given moment, I can decide what effect my actions will have, and whether I accept those consequences. I see moral guilt about things that don't really matter as the residue of old wives' tales, stone tablets and weak minds.
The only line I need to draw is my circle of domain: what part of my life do I claim under my own authority, and what part of my life do I subject to social mores about which I'm emotionally indifferent? And that I draw that line large so as to increase my enjoyment of life, rather than letting cackling hens like you tighten it around me like a coccoon, is what makes me different.
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