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People label me (and you too!) many things that are not true.
Because I hold the door for someone else, I am sexist if that person happens to be the opposite sex from me.
Because I just said "opposite sex from me" above, I am anti-gay and non-gender-inclusive.
Because I stand for the National Anthem, that makes me a racist.
What? So, because of idiots like the ones involved in the above name calling, I no longer care what people call me.
Another example, closer to the immediate topic of discussion:
If you download something from a very popular service that most all of us here use, it will disappear from your digital device after the loan expires if you are online. However, if after downloading, you simply copy or move that file to a different directory on your digital device, it will stay forever. And it does not contain any DRM. Is that stealing? There is no warning "do not move this file" when you download it, not that I'd even agree that the loaner has the authority to tell you you can't move a file on your own device.
Some might say, yes, that's definitely stealing. And I would play devil's advocate and ask them to tell me why. What law was broken? What contract was breached?
It's not always 100% black and white.
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