RE: Morality and downloading
April 17, 2015 at 9:14 am
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2015 at 9:15 am by Pizza.)
(April 17, 2015 at 9:08 am)bennyboy Wrote: I have to say that after 15 pages, I find the "downloading is illegal" group more philosophically convincing. My own arguments weren't really moral ones-- more about whether I should care about being moral in a given context.It's more a distinction between reasons for action and motives for action. Like we may have legal reasons to not perform an action, but have a motive to break the law.
I guess I'd say it like this-- some acts are clearly immoral, but whether we should CARE about being moral in this or that context is another issue. Maybe we need a new word-- metamorality.
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