-Why I Pirate- Is piracy justifiable?

[Porcupine_I]

Mr Khan said:

Porcupine_I said:

 

i cannot speak for others, but i personally cheered when the Berlin Mayor openly declared "i am gay and there is nothing wrong with it" but that arument is so much beside the point that i wouldn't even know where to begin to argue. but if you compare a perfectly natural emotion to pirating, then it is you who uses false arguments!

the point is, if he pirates because it's easier and cheaper he should say so, it would save him a lot of time and effort. but does he do it? no, because i feels it is not right. it doesn't even matter where this feeling of right and wrong comes from.

 

I often have problems elocuting the point i'm trying to make, and the fallaciousness of your earlier argument is the underlying idea that people who need to justify who they are have to be guilty of something, which is not the case. It sits in similar with the fallacy regarding privacy laws "if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't be worried." Your "if you felt fully moral in your actions, you wouldn't have to justify it," works similarly, and fails the acid test of argument due to those problems

You're projecting onto his motivations for not doing something that he is actually doing, a logical snarl. Although he does not overtly state it, his entire thesis revolves around the notion that "piracy is cheaper and easier and that's why i do it, because media should be cheaper and easier."

do you realize that you keep repeating the point that i make?

he pirated because it is cheaper and easier, but he makes all the effort to describe it in a way it feels justifiable to him, that is all i am saying, and that is what you just said.

i really really don't see what you are trying to tell me here, or why we are even arguing.