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Originally Posted by PKFFW
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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If you consider a specific moral system to be the correct one then an action is OK if the moral system says it is OK. Every evaluation of an action is relative to a specific moral system.
The discussion here is how things ought to be. Then you can look at different common moral systems and if you are lucky they give the same conclusions. Otherwise you have to specify what system you are using when saying that an action is OK.
And I am pretty convinced that a subset of all piracy is morally OK in a lot of consequence ethics.