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While I'm happy for you that you feel comfortable deciding that this can be put to bed, clearly many people feel differently. I'd argue that merely the observa
by mercer 10y ago
While I'm happy for you that you feel comfortable deciding that this can be put to bed, clearly many people feel differently.
I'd argue that merely the observation that many intelligent, morally sensitive people here on HN feel differently should be enough to realize that this is not a 'tangent' that can be 'put to bed'. Why would you even put it like that, knowing that there is such disagreement?
- hsod 10y agoBecause it's a purely semantic argument (in the literal sense of being an argument about the definition of words). There is no fundamental universal truth underlying whether it's OK to refer to piracy informally as "stealing".