You're still conflating morality with legality. Piracy being illegal has no basis on whether it's moral. > Imagine if everyone acted this way? This is basical

You're still conflating morality with legality. Piracy being illegal has no basis on whether it's moral. > Imagine if everyone acted this way? This is basically deontology by Immanuel Kant. Not everyone is a Kantian though, so this is why you see a clash of your personal ethics with those of non-Kantians. I don't think you're going to convince anyone through messages on HN (similarly those who are non-Kantians will not convince you, as you are seeing in your replies), just as I would not be able to convince an anti-abortionist about the opposite views. These ethical frameworks are so basal to our belief structures that if one disagree with someone else on these grounds, it is basically irreconcilable.