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Originally Posted by Xanthe
I know people enjoy portraying their choice of not participating in the Dark Net in the guise of a superior moral or ethical choice (witness the earlier "scum" name-calling), but that sort of holier-than-thou attitude just makes me smile.
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You are stealing from people who spent months or years writing books. It's not holier-than-thou to point this out, nor to point out that "smiling" at book stealing is, well, kind of chilling.
Interesting rhetorical device though - where you imply that people who *point out* the stealing are worse than the book stealers. Why? Because they point out the theft? Very post-modern. Morally bankrupt, but still.
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Very, very few of us can say that we are morally and ethically pure in all aspects of our lives; we all draw our lines in the sand in different places based upon our understanding of our world.
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Stealing from authors is bad. The fact that other people do other bad things doesn't make it good.
And what understanding of the world allows you to draw a line and claim that stealing from authors is *good?*
It's easy to develop a world view that provides a justification or rationalization for anything you want to do, of course. And, obviously, there are grey areas in a lot of matters. But I don't see how stealing from authors falls into a gray area at all.