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Originally Posted by taustin
Morality is a matter of opinion. There's no objective measure for it, and you'll get at least as many opinions as you ask people.
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A few things:
(i) there are a lot of people (both religious and secular philosophers) who would disagree that morality is just a "matter of opinion";
(ii) even if it is just opinion, not all opinions are equally valid (this seems to be a common fallacy people ascribe to); and
(iii) calling this behaviour "immoral" or "unethical" stretches those words to the point of meaninglessness.
If we're going to go so crazy as to say that this is immoral, why not go all the way and describe it as "retail terrorism"? Would that opinion be equally valid?