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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
...It seems clear at this point, however, that people aren't going to stop doing it and there's no way that laws are going to be used to punish everyone who participates in it. So maybe the laws need to be changed to acknowledge the reality that is already going on....
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So if large numbers of people cheat on their income taxes, the laws shouold be changed to make it legal? If large numbers of people believe is descrimination of some kind, the civil rights laws should be changed to allow it? If large numbers of people speed in school zones, the laws should be changed to make it legal?
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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
...I don't think that the argument, "You're just rationalizing", is going to make any ground with anyone either...
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Sadly, you're probably correct there.
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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
...The underlying assumption there is, "You know it's immoral, the rest of your arguments are just you wiggling out of responsibility for your immorality". Which, apart from being wrong, is insulting and doesn't lay the groundwork for shared understanding. My read is that people who fileshare honestly don't feel there is anything wrong with it, or feel it's no worse than any number of a thousand things we do every day without any twinges of guilt.
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Then why do people spend so much time and effort trying to rationalize it? At least we have at least a couple of people here who had the background to admit what they are doing is illegal and they don't care (not that it exonerates them).