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OTOH, if you know the other side isn't listening anyway, why bother arguing.
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How do you know the other side isn't listening unless you first ask them a question?
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Not a "saying" (well, not in this form; i'm sure someone's made a saying out of it though. would it help if I looked one up?), but much more true than "gee, you couldn't be bothered responding. I win. woohoo."
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Not saying I win. Just interesting that only one of the righteous "file sharers" seemed to want to respond to the question.
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
perhaps look up "quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur"?
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Hence why I didn't say it in latin.
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Sorry, but there are no moral absolutes. They were abolished right about when god died.
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Of course there are! Our modern society just doesn't want to acknowledge them because they tend to infringe upon what many of us want to do and we don't like that as we are programmed to believe the
rights of the individual(at least in respect to ourselves but rarely in respect to all others) are paramount and all else is secondary. So instead we convicne ourselves of the greyness of everything in the hopes it will comfort us and make us feel better about what we choose to do.
If you truly think there are no moral absolutes try this..........think of something you would really really not like to happen to you. I'd suggest being murdered in cold blood, for no reason whatsoever, as a good example. Now try to think up a rationalisation or reason as to why that would not be considered wrong. Try to convince yourself that someone else has the right to do that. Really try to convince yourself that if someone did that to you they would not have done something "wrong". Then, just to be fair, try to convince yourself of any sort of reason as to why you would have the right to do that to someone else and if you did do it, you would not have done something wrong.
If you can't truly convince yourself then you've found your first moral absolute. If you can, then you are the classic definition of a psychopath.
And no, I'm not comparing "file sharing" to murder.
Cheers,
PKFFW