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- From: mwalker@novell.com (Mel Walker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
- Message-ID: <mwalker-070193130700@mwalker.npd.provo.novell.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 20:09:05 GMT
- References: <C0Hv06.7rB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In article <C0Hv06.7rB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, neath@brazil.psych.purdue.edu
- (Ian Neath) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1993Jan7.155907.19880@mail.cornell.edu> Tim Larkin
- > (tsl1@cornell.edu) writes:
- > > It makes no difference whether piracy is most
- > > like shoplifting or most like illegal parking or most like serial
- > > killing.
- > > It's wrong even if it's easy and low risk. If it's wrong, don't do it.
- > > There's nothing complicated about it. It is fully susceptible to a simple
- > > answer.
- >
- > A hypothetical question:
- > Would you rather I pirate some software from you (or park in your parking
- > space illegally) or would you rather I make you viction number 6 in a
- > series of a dozen grizly murders?
-
- The fact that piracy is less wrong than murder does not make it not-wrong.
-
- Or is that too obvious a statement for the rationalizations that are going
- on in this discussion?
-
- Clearly, most humans are not rational beings; they are rationalizing being.
- :-)
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