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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4745511" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>I always get a little skeeved out when economic terms are linked to what is morally good, personally. It is, in my view, conflating two very distinct entities. Reminds me a bit of the merchants-in-the-temple incident from the New Testament, or the "render unto Ceasar" bit. I'm not a better person for paying my taxes. I'm probably a better citizen, but non-living entities -- the state, the dollar bill -- have little bearing on my moral compass. Supporting an economy or a nation or a particular industry isn't a moral thing. The RPG industry isn't inherently virtuous. Music and invention and games and stories existed long before IP law was conceived. </p><p></p><p>Not that it's new or surprising or even wrong to think that way. <em>Protestant Ethic</em> and all that. </p><p></p><p>This isn't directed at you specifically, GMFPG, but at kind of the majority of the thread, it seems. It's just kind of fascinating to me as a dabbler in social sciences and religious studies how these can conflate on an issue like this.</p><p></p><p>This touches on the no-politics-or-religion thing, so I might not even be able to discuss all of the ideas, here, but I did think it was worth pointing out that I find the idea that it is ethically or morally wrong very odd, personally, and a little disturbing, in a sort of "what would Adam Smith think!" kind of way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 4745511, member: 2067"] I always get a little skeeved out when economic terms are linked to what is morally good, personally. It is, in my view, conflating two very distinct entities. Reminds me a bit of the merchants-in-the-temple incident from the New Testament, or the "render unto Ceasar" bit. I'm not a better person for paying my taxes. I'm probably a better citizen, but non-living entities -- the state, the dollar bill -- have little bearing on my moral compass. Supporting an economy or a nation or a particular industry isn't a moral thing. The RPG industry isn't inherently virtuous. Music and invention and games and stories existed long before IP law was conceived. Not that it's new or surprising or even wrong to think that way. [I]Protestant Ethic[/I] and all that. This isn't directed at you specifically, GMFPG, but at kind of the majority of the thread, it seems. It's just kind of fascinating to me as a dabbler in social sciences and religious studies how these can conflate on an issue like this. This touches on the no-politics-or-religion thing, so I might not even be able to discuss all of the ideas, here, but I did think it was worth pointing out that I find the idea that it is ethically or morally wrong very odd, personally, and a little disturbing, in a sort of "what would Adam Smith think!" kind of way. [/QUOTE]
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