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Originally Posted by Quexos
You either stand on the legal sale of goods or you don't, regardless of what the good is, you cannot say it's wrong to download a book and it's right to steal food. You are the one offending such children by upholding the system as it currently is.
Point made, enough said. If you and others don't get it now then any further debate is futile.
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When my kids were young, I refused to download illicitly, even when they were intellectually starving. God, it was heartbreaking to hear them use phrases like "I saws a pretty birdie tha other day", or "I can't not do it", it was all I could do to not sneak off with a loaf of James Joyce or Mark Twain to feed their emaciated minds. But you know what? I never did it, I never stole.
My kids are grown now, my daughter writes shows for Fox, and my son spends his days on internet forums making bad analogies, writing posts that make it painfully clear that he's oblivious to any moral degrees between black or white. Every time I read my one of my son's clichéd filled posts, more soundbite than actual thought, I think of what could have been and die a little on the inside. My kids don't hate me, but how could they? They don't even know that the hole exists. I hate myself for them.