Thread: eBook piracy, how common is it?
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Old 04-07-2009, 06:59 AM   #713
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
It is not simple. A thing is not morally wrong just because it is not legal. If you try to follow some kind of consequence ethics than it is not obviously true that all illegal downloading is wrong.

So either you just say that things are illegal and do not discus morality. But if you discus how things ought to be then you cannot pretend that the issue is simple and just hope that people will be fooled by that.
Did I say it was wrong simply because it is illegal? I don't believe I did.

As I alluded to in my previous post, humans are able to rationalise just about anything if they really want to.

When did the idea that we all have our own moral compasses and determine for ourselves what is right or wrong in this free society that two world wars have given us and our brave soldiers have fought and died for give us the right to do anything we want if we personally can somehow rationalise away the inherent wrongness of it?

I'm sure you'd agree that no amount of saying "well hey I don't think it is wrong" would make some acts ok wouldn't you? So why should doing so make piracy ok? Because that's all it is really.

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