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Originally Posted by HarryT
The end result may be the same, but for me, yes, the origin of the material does matter.
It's the same as asking if there's any ethical difference between buying a bottle of Scotch in a supermarket, on which all the appropriate taxes have been paid, and buying the same brand at half the price from "a man in a pub", which has been smuggled from France, and on which UK taxes have not been paid. The end result is the same - you have a bottle of whisky - but one has been obtained legitimately and the other from an illicit source.
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Wrong analogy.
It's more like you pay taxes, you pay the distiller and all and you've got your bottle.
After that, they say it's been smudged and they make pay another time taxes, fees and all that for the same bottle.
And you've got to repay them entirely every time you smell whiskey somewhere.
