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Originally Posted by JSWolf
... it doesn't cause any harm since if I didn't download it, I would borrow it from the library instead.
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If you borrow the book from the library, you are preventing other people from accessing it for the duration.
Perhaps taking the hypothetical download would do more to maintain the sum of human happiness (the library book remains on option for others).
It could be argued that the download, in this scenario, is the ethical to do.