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Originally Posted by Catlady
No, the point I was sarcastically trying to make is that the situations are not analagous. There is a point at which you can say pretty much objectively that eating becomes gluttony. There is no similar point at which you can say that sharing books changes from good to bad.
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Then here is a point where we disagree and can agree about what we disagree about
I think it's a perfect analogy. There is certainly a point at which eating becomes gluttony.
But tell me, is it eating four chocolates a day or five? Ten or eleven? Twenty or twenty-one?
If you say it's eating 500 a day, does that mean eating 499 isn't gluttony? How about 498?
Back to ebooks:
I say that sharing a library of 10,000 commercial in-copyright ebooks against the copyright holders wishes with 10,000,000 people isn't merely illegal, it's also immoral.
I say that sharing 1 ebook with 1 friend is illegal, but isn't immoral.
Since you're arguing that quantity doesn't matter in cases of morality, which which of these two assertions do you disagree?