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Originally Posted by Inspector
You really should come up with a justification to rob banks too. It would be way more profitable.
Yeah, theives frequently will try to fool themselves into believing that their stealing isn't a bad thing for some reason or another.
And then it's real easy to say "That's my opinion". Cool. Guess what, the guy down the street is of the opinion that he should have your car.
A thief is a thief is a thief, regardless of the property they are stealing. The justifications people are trying pass off in this thread are amazing.
I'd like to thanks the honest people out there. I know there are plenty of us but obviously there are plenty who are not.
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Im not trying to fool myself at all. In all the examples you listed someone is suffering a loss. When nobody suffers a loss of any kind, from a morality standpoint in my opinion its not theft. Im not depriving anyone of anything, and not profiting from it so no harm no foul. Tell me who is getting hurt when I copy a movie I rented from Netflix that I wasnt going to buy anyway? Nobody is, but people are profiting...Netflix, the movie industry, and dvd-r manufactures/sellers.
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Originally Posted by Bearcat
So, if you went to Rent-a-Center, signed up to rent something for a week or whatever, then just kept it, that's stealing... but not when you do the same thing with a movie? You're paying a rental price so you can own (steal) it.
Think I'll stop by Hertz on the way home and get myself a second car for $40...
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Rent-a-Center/Hertz would be suffering a loss of physical property that they could have sold to someone else and profited from, so yes in my opinion that would be theft. The movie industry isn't losing anything when I copy a movie that I paid to rent and I'm not depriving them of a sale they could have had because I wouldn't have bought it anyway. 90% of these movies I copy from Netflix sit in a folder and never get watched again anyway so Im basically just wasting my money on dvd-r's.
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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Did you steal the pot you're smoking?
Because if not, your comparison is completely invalid.
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I used that example to prove my point that doing something illegal doesn't necessarily mean its immoral. And no I dont steal pot, and very rarely ever smoke it.