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Old 08-26-2010, 05:21 PM   #77
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale View Post
Would you consider it ethical to have purchased illegal hard copies to give them to charity? Or to buy illegal hard copies and then give away your legal copies? Ethically, it seems to me, those two cases are more or less identical to what you have done.
They're different because there's a difference between the content and the container. You might not like them both, or like one and not the other, or whatever - but they're different.
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