[Catlady]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

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?

I said already that I don't go by raw numbers for the chocolate. My criterion was effect on the eater's health. That's why eating/gluttony fails as a analogy.

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?

I am not necessarily arguing that quantity doesn't matter, I'm playing devil's advocate. But why should quantity matter in terms of morality?