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Old 10-06-2009, 07:01 AM   #109
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Originally Posted by Shaggy View Post
Some people feel better about their own poor choices if they can convince themselves that everyone else was making the same mistakes.
With that said, I have no idea if the majority of RapidShare files are infringing or not. But I doubt anyone else on here really knows either.
...Oddly using the same reasoning the "rapidshare infringers" do, namely, "If I X [have no idea about something], then so must everyone else".
So yes, it's pretty hard to defend against your claim that "you can't know for certain that you have full information (or even a representative sample of sufficient size)", specifically because you state beforehand (as well as afterwards) that "you doubt this to be true".
Premise/dogmatic assumption 1: Every assertion made by every MR member can be doubted.
Premise 2: Some assertion.
Conclusion: I'm unconvinced.
Exciting stuff indeed.
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