-Why I Pirate- Is piracy justifiable?

[Mr Khan]

Porcupine_I said:

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.

 

That is a fallacious argument, categorically speaking. They "feel the need to justify it" because there's a whole propaganda machine started by greedy hollywood middlemen telling them that they are the scum of the earth. It's similar to why gays have to "justify" being gay, not because there is anything wrong with it, but because so many people are trying to tell them that something is wrong with it.

If you read between the lines of the OP, "it's easier and cheaper" is precisely what he's saying, and that what he's saying is that things need to become, if not significantly cheaper, at least easier for end users. No-one is not making that argument, i think.