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Old 02-02-2011, 02:47 PM   #336
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Originally Posted by TGS View Post
Whilst I am all for grey areas - it's my favourite colour for decorating moral positions - I really don't understand how the moral status of an act varies with the relationship that the perpetrator has to the beneficiary of the act. If I do something that's bad but do it to benefit my mum or my husband then the badness of the thing that I did disappears, but if I do it to benefit my next door neighbour it stays bad?
Grey - remember the grey!

But one way it's different is because you have a very small and (hopefully) stable number of SOs. You might have fifty friends, who vary from year to year. Also, SOs tend to live in the same household, so sharing ebooks is much more easily analogous to the sharing of paper books.

But to consider your question even more seriously.... umm. yes. I think that even if you just had one bestest best friend, and they had their family and SO and you had yours, but you happened to like the same kind of reading material, while your SOs liked something completely different.... yes, I still think it would be wrong for the two of you to gives copies of every ebook you bought to each other.

YMMV
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