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Originally Posted by HarryT
There's certainly that, but the primary reason I consider it unethical is the fact that Kindle books are licensed for your use, not the use of your circle of friends.
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So you're weighing your ethical view of this situation against your friendship. That's a fair thing to do and your conclusion that it's better not to lend the Kindle is also a fair decision. So would be a conclusion that friendship and generosity and helping to maintain generous relationships is more important. That would be my choice.
I grew up with 2 brothers and a sister and we were sometimes very sharing and sometimes very selfish, probably like most families. But the one thing I can't ever recall being an issue among us was sharing books. Someone would buy a book. All of us would read it if we were interested. All of us were free to lend it to the neighbors or to our friends. No permission was ever needed. Sharing books was just something we did without thinking about it.
If a friend or a neighbor or a family member asked to borrow my spare Kindle with a particular book on it I can't imagine saying no. I just wouldn't do it. If they made it a felony I'd still lend it, although maybe to fewer people.
I'm not quite sure why but ever since this topic began in this thread I keep thinking about Miss Gulch wanting to do away with Toto. Her reasons were very good ones but still, somehow I can't quite find it in myself to agree with putting Toto to sleep. It's a good thing that tornado came along when it did.
Barry