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Originally Posted by doctorow
Your mistrust of people's motives (motives of your friends no less) depicts a lonely and disconnected picture of this world. How can you still interact with them if you mistrust them with something trivial as respecting your wishes not to pirate the e-book you lent to them?
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Precisely because, as I said in my previous post, on the few occasions that I've lent people paper books (which I keep in a pristine condition) I've got them back in a shocking state, with creased spines, bent covers, etc. It's not a matter of being "lonely and disconnected" - it's a matter of experience teaching me that, much as I enjoy the company of my friends, they don't have the same respect for books that I do. And if I'm pirating the book by giving it to them in the first place, it's a bit hypocritical to ask them not to do the same, isn't it? One rule for me and a different one for them?