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Originally Posted by taustin
Yeah. For most people, their own opinion deserves more weight than opinions they disagree with....
...Again, I don't agree with the position that it's unethical, but if one did, I would guess that using Amazon's bandwidth would be unethical, too, but to a far lesser degree, since the bandwidth you use literally costs too little to measure, where wasting a salesman's time in, say, an electronics store can cost the store hudnreds of dollars (or more) in business, and the salesman a significant percentage of tha in commission.
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An opinion can have less weight than another because it is based on vague opinions rather than facts, or can have less weight because it is plain bonkers. Not all opinions are equal, and it's irrelevant if it's my opinion or someone else's. If someone has the opinion that 2+5 is 4, that opinion should probably get less weight than the opinion that the answer is 7.
But in your response to my hypothetical, I guess that person would also say it's less unethical if you browse a store but don't talk to any salespersons, or if you're the only one in the store so the possibility of interfering with a potential sale is nil.
I don't know, if that person's opinion leads to arbitrary results when applied to a slightly tweaked scenario, maybe their opinion about the ethics of the original situation is faulty and should be given less weight.