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Originally Posted by leebase
If you can’t understand that stealing is immoral...that’s not my problem. I accept the judgement label. It is appropriate....and it is moral.
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I don't think that's what I said.
I said, that saying that something is a "fact" or "truth" is not
quite accurate, when you're talking about moral judgements, which is what we're discussing here. You can say that "it's a fact that our society, on the whole,
considers it immoral." You can say that it's a
fact that the earth circles the sun.
But you cannot say that it's
a fact that stealing is immoral. That's a value judgement, a moral judgement that we, as a people, make. It's a set of rules that we've collectively chosen to agree to and follow.
That's all I was saying. I am the first to agree that thievery by any name, including copyright infringement, is wrong. But I don't confuse my
values with cold hard
facts.
It's bad enough that so many people can't separate
opinion from
fact in this day and age. Given the typical intellect on this forum, we should strive for accuracy and clarity in what we say, that's all. Most people here try for that, right?
Hitch