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Originally Posted by HansTWN
You are going to extreme lengths to justify that you have a right to take whatever you want, even if it doesn't belong to you. Well, since you do not believe in private property rights, there is not much to discuss.
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I'm not making any attempts to justify anything whatsoever-- that is just you projecting. I need no justifications at all-- I want it, it is freely available, I take it. End of story. And as I have cleary stated (wait, I'll quote myself):
"I'm not arguing that-- because there is no objective morality-- there should not be moral constraints placed on people by the conditioning of their societies for the good of the functioning of the collective."
So, in a
societal sense, I do believe in "rights"-- I simply am not trying to fool myself into thinking that there are any "rights" from any
objective frame of reference-- I do not conciser humans to be anything more than evolved creatures with no afterlife and no magical sky faeries watching over us.
And you can continue to make obsolete analogies straining to equate digital copies of data with physical property all you want-- it will continue to be not credible.
Here's my vision of a morally preferable world-- all of human knowledge is available to everyone, everywhere, all the time, with no worries about whether one can "afford" to "purchase" that information. How or if content creators manage to make money off of that system is not my concern or interest.