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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Yes and no. If you have a child that doesn't listen to you at all and would rather see the whole family go down and lose the internet connection than stop downloading stuff then you do have some serious problems don't you think? Sort of like a child with a download addiction, a child that doesn't care about what happens to anybody else. I feel this certainly does deserve to be pointed out in the context of this discussion.
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It's a spin on the old "Why are you opposed to the government doing XYZ by invading your privacy if you have nothing to hide?" argument. It's the conflation of two issues in order to avoid addressing the main point. You can focus on the errant child and the apathetic parent, but that is no excuse to not address the issue of the lumping together of the guilty and the innocent.