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Originally Posted by Joshua.P
You guys are really strange you know that? It doesn't effect anyone, and thus is victimless because I wouldn't have bought the DVD anyway if I didn't happen to download the torrent.
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If strange means being in the minority, you are strange in seeing avoidance of victimization as the be all and end all of morality. Most people see victimization as extremely important in coming up with rules of morality, but there is more to it than that. For example, commonplace conventional morality (and law) does not allow evidence that remaining books of a particular title were about to be pulped as a defense for shoplifting.
Trespassing is another example of a victimless action most people think is wrong.
Of course, most people can be wrong! I don't think strange moral reasoning is necessarily bad moral reasoning. But since you apparently do, by your own standard, you should oppose piracy. Especially book piracy, which I suspect has even less popular support than downloading movies.