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0 pointscrimsonalucard6y ago0 comments

>I am also tempted to tell you that you might want to revise you usage of the words morally and ethically and that these are probably more profound than to be applied to a kid wanting to buy an album but failed to find it. Having said this, have a good day.

Don't make it profound. Make it simple. The kid couldn't find the album so he DLed it illegally. The kid is aware of this illegality at some level.

That awareness is how simple the situation actually is. The profoundness arises when someone tries to justify the situation. I use the word ethics and morals as one would use it in common english parlance about discussions of such matters, I am not asking for a philosophical definition of said terms.

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pachico6y ago

Here's where you are wrong, also: it wasn't illegal (at least at the time - now I don't know since I don't download stuff). So, being that the case, all your profound, simple, philosophical or vague attempts to find this illegal, and therefore wrong, are useless, I'm afraid. As pointed by someone also, you seem to argue that illegal follows wrong but that's not granted. Legality is an attempt to out in practice a certain amount of ideas about what right and wrong is by a certain society at a given time in history, that's all.

crimsonalucardOP6y ago

I didn't make anything profound or philosiphical that's just you. I'm conflating illegality, morality and ethics into a singular simple concept: What you did is wrong plain and simple, and you're aware of it.

What's going on with your 'philosophy' now is a complicated attempt at justification.

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pachico6y ago

crimsonalucardOP6y ago

What's going on with your 'philosophy' now is a complicated attempt at justification.

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