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It doesn't matter. The point is that it's not common sense to always use the legal system to enforce one's ethics. It's perfectly consistent to hold two mutuall
by burntsushi 6y ago
It doesn't matter. The point is that it's not common sense to always use the legal system to enforce one's ethics. It's perfectly consistent to hold two mutually exclusive views: 1) I don't want to use the legal system to enforce things like who can use my software and 2) I have ethics that go above and beyond what's legal (I imagine most people do).
- mwcampbell 6y agoSure, most humans have ethics that go above and beyond what's legal. But for-profit corporations don't, and they're growing more and more powerful. The legal system is one of the few ways of fighting that power.
- burntsushi 6y agoThat's a totally different argument than the one I responded to though. If that were the argument, I wouldn't have said anything.