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yeah yeah I've seen that argument a thousand times before, just as you've used it plenty of times, I'm sure... Usually it's used to point out that calling file-sharing theft is ok, since something else is also called theft without something actually being taken from you. In this thread it makes less sense in my opinion, since there are probably a thousand things that I think are wrong even without some form of "taking" being involved. Actually I think "giving" somebody a black eye for no apparent reason is wrong as well.
But when in this thread I was commenting on demonoid, which has nothing to do with identity theft. If you read my post in that context, as you should, (read NatCh's post about reading posts in context instead of just staring blindly at words) you might want to come up with a better argument than this straw-man argument.
But then again, I guess we should leave it at that, since this usually goes no further than stating one's moral preferences.
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