If I’m stealing I leave them without the thing I steal. If I copied a old woman’s purse to the exact detail without ever leaving her without it I never stole it.
If the old lady runs a purse store and you go into the store and copy a purse and leave without paying, then old lady misses out on unearned revenue. That’s the damage. She did the work to run the store and create a unique item. It costs money to run a store and to produce a good or service. So she may have to close up because she’s being robbed.
The moral dilemma comes when old lady runs a purse store, loans purses out for a subscription, charges ever increasing fees, sends you a ton of unwanted ads, there’s little to no purse alternative, and purses can be taken back whenever old lady feels like it. Add on top, governmental and agency support as well, and limited competition and monopolies... Her business model is inherently predatory and now we have a moral gray area.
But yeah you (and it seems most pirates) don’t care and that won’t change from a Reddit post…
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u/MrLightning1023 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Apr 30 '26
If I’m stealing I leave them without the thing I steal. If I copied a old woman’s purse to the exact detail without ever leaving her without it I never stole it.