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Hmm.. OK, so someone's eating affects their health such that on average they will live one hour less than another person who eats more healthily. Is that gluttony?
How about if the difference in life expectancy a day? A month? A year? five years? Thirty Years?
There is a continuum here too.
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No, not to the extent you're trying to make it seem. There are relatively objective standards for weight and calorie intake and BMI. There are measures of obesity. Yes, there's a continuum, but at least there are specific signposts. Where are there ANY markers that indicate when one has passed the line in sharing files?
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Quantity doesn't matter for some acts. Murder is wrong whether you do it just once or hundreds of times.
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Quantity doesn't matter for MOST acts, except in terms of how severely they should be punished. This is what I said at the beginning. The act itself is wrong; it doesn't morph from right to wrong based on number of times committed.
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Other acts are moral or immoral depending on permission. Having sex isn't immoral, unless it's without permission.
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Your example is not entirely true--for example, the participants may be consenting adults, but married to other people. I would say they are acting immorally in breaking their vows.
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And for some acts, quantity plays a role in morality, and sometimes even in legality.
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And the example would be?