Piracy wouldn't be stealing even if buying was owning. Stealing is a crime in a moral dimension cause someone loses something
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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yes but you're stealing from the alternate universe where a company would have earned money for the product you pirated, you sicko
do you have no empathy for hypothetical stockholders from another dimension?
Going through the shop and not buying all the stuff i see: shop owner - that would be 1 million in unrealized profit, thank you very much
Piracy is never stealing and also stealing from corpos is not immoral anyway
Plot twist: piracy is never stealing
piracy is sometimes stealing if you're on a boat.
Yeah but then it's cool
It's always cool.
Less cool if its not on a boat though
Unless you wear a cool pirate hat while doing it.
I can accept this compromise position
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Farmers be like:
it's incredible to me that trying to undo the damage done by these ghouls is a felony (as Cory says) in here. I don't want to be that person, but how is this sustainable? it seems like such a massive footgun for the entire functioning "western" world that I'm actually feeling some communist optimism.
But stealing from corporations is still cool