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Old 03-16-2010, 05:01 PM   #359
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
No nothing is simplistic about it, it's very clear what is wrong is what the society you live in says is wrong.
So, if you live in a society that says that slavery is OK, then it's OK? Are you really saying that the majority should not only rule, but that their view, or the accepted view, or the law, or whatever it is that you mean - is morally right?

Under that definition, any attempt to change the accepted view is by definition wrong. But, if it works, it's right!

Are you saying that if we have a generation that grows up with file sharing and decides that information wants to be free, then if society says it's right, it will be right? Under that view, your complaints that society have no moral fibre any more make no sense - it's simply that what is right is shifting. It seems to me that, by your own argument, what you often advocate as right (i.e. that people shouldn't violate copyright), is by your own definition wrong (because society doesn't share your view, so your view is wrong).
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