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Originally Posted by kaas
Where is the difference (for the author) whether you copy a book and don't pay him or ignore it completely. In both circumstances the author receives nothing.
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The similarity is that you are violating the author's rights, just as the robber or the burglar violates your. In one circumstance you do not violate the author's rights and in the other you do. In one circumstance you do not contribute to the overall acceptance and apathy of theft from the author and in the other you do. In one case you are not taking the unearned or undeserved by force and in the other case you are.
The conceptual difference you fail to consider is that you don't have a right to determine whether or not the author would or wouldn't lose something by your theft. You don't have a right to take which does not belong to you, that you which you haven't earned or obtained permission from the rightful owner to possess.
What's worse is you don't seem to even feel any shame by being a leech off the life of another person. You think a low income level gives you some 'special' license over the work and effort of other men. Your behavior is parasitic in nature, not that of a man who takes pride in making his life his own, a man who trades voluntarily with other men for MUTUAL benefit of both, and a man who can be proud of himself for doing so. I tend to think this means you have pretty low self-esteem knowing you can't earn your own life based on your own work, value and effort. While I have contempt for you, I almost equally feel sorry for you that this escapes you. You trash the concept of justice with this behavior, the idea of treating other men as the deserved to be treated rather than treated other men as means to your own ends, as slaves to your 'need' or whim.