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Porcupine_I on 25 January 2012
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Mr Khan said:
Porcupine_I said:
People pirate because it's easy and it saves them money.

These are the only two reasons and every other so called reason is just to make them justify it to themselves. with all these weak excuses they only point out that they actually know it's wrong, but they just don't want to admit it.

No-one is denying that they're not doing it because it's easy and cheap, but one has to consider whether it is immoral to acquire things easily and cheaply. Your morality system implies that the motive for your actions helps determine rightness and wrongness, when really the root of rational morality is about outcomes, pursuant to the verbose posts i've been running about the matter in the past week.

really? i have yet to see a post of someone who admits exactly that. All i ever see is stuff like in the OP.

if they would not feel it to be wrong for whatever reason, they would not need to justify it to themselves or others.

 



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’