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Old 10-19-2010, 08:41 AM   #169
Steven Lyle Jordan
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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.
Really? Refraining from jaywalking makes me lonely? Funny... I thought it kept me alive and vital. I know of no one more lonely than a person in an intensive care ward after a car-strike. Except maybe the person in the ground after a car-strike...

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Rules that are most important to you as an author are not the rules that are most important to society in general... People rationalize all the time about which rules to follow.
That actually might make sense... if we were talking about people who steal to feed their families. But we're talking about ebooks, a product no one needs, no one will starve without, and no one will be denied a room at the inn for being without. But the products can put food on the table for those who write and sell them, and to some degree, they are directly impacted by those stealing their work instead of paying for it.

There is simply no valid rationalization for stealing something no one needs, but a creator can potentially profit from. Which is why the idea of rationalizing a reason for pirating ebooks is morally bankrupt.

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