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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I think this is a variant on the sorites paradox. When does a heap of sand stop being a heap of sand?
When does eating chocolates cross the line from eating to gluttony? Surely not after one chocolate. Two? Three? A box? Two boxes? Ten boxes?
Those who consider gluttony to be immoral would probably class eating ten boxes of chocolates in one sitting as gluttony and therefore immmoral. Few would consider eating one chocolate to be gluttony, and therefore is probably moral.
So. Eating a single chocolate is moral, but eating 10 boxes of chocolates is immoral.
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Not really. I think eating becomes gluttony when it adversely affects the health and well-being of the person doing the eating. I don't know what effect would be analogous for someone who is either uploading or downloading files--a deterioration of one's personal moral health? How do you measure that? By how many file sharers become shoplifters or burglars?