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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
And thus marks the breakdown of society.
"What is easiest for them" is NEVER what counts. That's the logic of the rats in the alleys and the flies on a carcass, not of humans in civilization. No one lives in isolation; it's time everyone on this planet--and especially those who take advantage of technology others provided for them and plug into these stoopid tubes--accepted that they are part of a society, and in a society, there are rules to follow.
Don't want to be part of society? Fine. But society is kinda tight, so give all our stuff back...
Exactly... that's the way people in a society do it.
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I would argue that if your definition of society is following all the rules then you live if a very lonely society. I live a block from a school so I can't walk out my door before I see people breaking rules. Jaywalking because it's easiest for them. It's no wonder because their parents (the rats in the alleys and flies on the carcass) are illegally parking when they drop off their kids and then speeding on their way to work.
Rules that are most important to you as an author are not the rules that are most important to society in general. I would argue that jaywalking is a much more serious violation of the law then downloading an ebook but most people don't even know what it is. People rationalize all the time about which rules to follow.