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user-inactivated  ·  3738 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can we cogently refute "stealing is stealing"?

    To quote the great wasoxygen: compared to what?

Where did he say this? I can't find it anywhere.

    at the most basic level I'm taking something someone made and enjoying it without paying for it. I don't pretend to be moral while doing so, because I'm not an ass.

I don't pretend to be doing good (and to be honest I barely ever pirate anymore; most content to me nowadays is not worth consuming), but I don't pretend to be doing bad either. Is that what you meant by "being moral"?





user-inactivated  ·  3738 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I don't pretend to be doing good (and to be honest I barely ever pirate anymore; most content to me nowadays is not worth consuming), but I don't pretend to be doing bad either. Is that what you meant by "being moral"?

Hmm. Maybe, not exactly. It's all very definitional, though. Immoral may not mean bad. (See the zero-sum point above.)

wasoxygen  ·  3738 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Where did he say this?
It's a pet phrase. I only see one public example of prior art.

Flag: stop stealing my line.