(April 17, 2015 at 9:11 am)Quatermass Wrote:(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.
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.
But downloading being illegal has little to do with morality (in the same way that murder and rape are) and everything to do with profit margins.
I agree to a degree. Especially in my example of a Youtube video in which you show a moment of your life with music playing in the background, I think fair use laws should be a lot more generous. However, is it moral just to ignore a law because you think it is bad, or shouldn't apply to you? Remember Socrates and the poison?
