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Easy: if an act does not impose force, threat, or fraud, it is moral.
by jobeirne 17y ago
Easy: if an act does not impose force, threat, or fraud, it is moral.
- froo 17y agoEasy: if an act does not impose force, threat, or fraud, it is moral. Well then by your "easy" definition, theft (within the context of piracy) is not a threatening force, is not fraudulent nor does it require force. So you have just defined Piracy as a moral thing to do. You just lost your own original argument by your own definition. Nice job.
- jobeirne 17y agoYou obviously misunderstood what I said; "force" does not only apply to physical things: it runs the gamut from plagiarism to patent infringement. You are forcefully (and wrongly) obtaining media in that you have not first obtained the consent of the owner or producer.
- jibiki 17y agoBut other people clearly have a different opinion of what constitutes force. So we're back to the beginning. I would suggest using a different word, since your definition of "force" very much bends the standard English meaning. In particular, it's hard to use the verb form in regards to piracy: nobody is "forcing" anyone to do anything. Edit: the physical meaning of force ("I forced the lock") doesn't really apply either...
- tome 17y agoOh is it easy? And downloading a movie falls into which of those categories? It's certainly not force or threat, so it must be fraud. In which case: Can you explain how one determines, in an objective way, whether or not an act is fraudulent?