On 10/3/2013 8:42 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
Alias wrote:
On 10/3/2013 4:00 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 01:09:30 +0200, "Alias"
wrote in article l2i93f$2e7$1
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On 10/2/2013 7:27 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 19:14:36 +0200, "Alias"
wrote in article l2hka2$19r$1
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On 10/2/2013 6:23 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
On 10/2/13 10:06 AM, Alias wrote:
On 10/2/2013 5:49 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
On 10/2/13 8:51 AM, Alias wrote:
On 10/2/2013 4:12 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:00:38 -0600, "Ken Springer"
wrote in article l2h8u3$52r$1
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On 10/2/13 5:00 AM, Ron wrote:
On 10/2/2013 3:42 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message ,
Ken Blake
writes
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 03:35:15 -0400, Ron
wrote:

On 8/26/2013 5:06 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 03:35:01 -0500, CRNG

wrote:

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As far as I'm concerned, $4.99 is close enough to free. I
don't
mind
paying for it.

If you've found it for free, care to share?

snip pirate link

So, you believe in stealing?????

And for a measly $5 even.


Petty theft, a misdemeanor in the USA. Course, some countries
like
Spain
have laws that if it's for personal use and not for profit,
downloading
from The Pirate Bay is completely legal and not considered theft.
You do
know that this group can be accessed by folks not in the USA or
do you?

I do, but taking something that doesn't belong to you is still
theft, no
matter how small.



It's only theft if the law says it's theft. Ask MS and Apple what
they
took from Xerox. Did they activate before using what they took?

Negative, sir. If you have morals, and live by them, it's theft.
The
law just provides consequences acceptable to the majority of
society.



Give me a ****ing break and get off your high moral horse. No one
steals, right? Not Wall Street, not the politicians, the oil
companies,
the banks?

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a big part of what is wrong with
our
society today - "it's OK for me to steal since those folks did bad
things too! See, I'm entitled!"

Doesn't matter if the law provides you an exemption. Doesn't matter if
someone else is doing wrong. Doesn't matter if you can justify it to
yourself. It is still wrong.


And you're still on your high moral horse as if you were a bloody
saint.
How does it feel to be morally perfect?

Never said I was morally perfect.

Then don't throw stones.


He's not throwing stones; he's teaching.

As if.

What are you going to tell kids? "Well, it's wrong to steal;

Of course.

except
maybe in circumstance A or possibly a combination of circumstance B with
C (provided that circumstances T and Y have previously occurred)."
No! You teach them the moral normative rule. "It's wrong to steal".

In Spain it isn't stealing.


And why do you do that? Because kids come out of the womb knowing no
better. And if you don't teach them otherwise they'll steal and kill and
create a hell on Earth. Little gangster babies, feeding their needs with
antisocial and criminal behaviour.

Ever read William Goldings' "Lord of The Flies"?

Ed





I probably read it before you were born.

--
Alias

The only real problems are avarice, anger and stupidity.