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Originally Posted by kennyc
Ah, so it's dependent your determination of value.
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Whether something is stealing or not is not value dependant. How bad that stealing is, is value dependant. I was only saying that stealing an apple is not such a bad thing in my book. And I say that as an apple-owner
My point is to distinguish stealing from copying, your example of stealing an apple was a poor one - we are both agreed that this is stealing. We may differ in how morally repugnant we find that example of stealing, but such it is.
A better example, if you want to persuade people that copying is bad, would be an example of copying that harms people. I can't think of a very plausible one off-hand.