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<blockquote data-quote="bramadan" data-source="post: 107809" data-attributes="member: 1064">A question for all the &quot;theft is theft&quot; people out there:While certanly illegal is theft necessarily immoral ? Also is all theft *equaly* immoral ? Stealing food money from a single mom strikes me as significantly [...] more immoral then stealing contents of a CD from a multi-milion dollar record company.Reason why moralizing reasonong will never hinder (vast majority of) people in file &quot;sharing&quot; is that there is no normal human being being wronged for the thief to empathise with. It is *very* hard to empathise with corporations and only marginaly less hard to empathise with millionaire artists and core of our moral values is empathy.If the chances of being caught were as infinitesimal as they are with file &quot;sharing&quot; I would without any moral reservations steal couple of hunderd thousand from Bill Gates but would never do so to the guy for whome that money is his lifetime savings for the old age (or whatever).[It used to say less, it was a typo]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bramadan, post: 107809, member: 1064"] A question for all the "theft is theft" people out there: While certanly illegal is theft necessarily immoral ? Also is all theft *equaly* immoral ? Stealing food money from a single mom strikes me as significantly [...] more immoral then stealing contents of a CD from a multi-milion dollar record company. Reason why moralizing reasonong will never hinder (vast majority of) people in file "sharing" is that there is no normal human being being wronged for the thief to empathise with. It is *very* hard to empathise with corporations and only marginaly less hard to empathise with millionaire artists and core of our moral values is empathy. If the chances of being caught were as infinitesimal as they are with file "sharing" I would without any moral reservations steal couple of hunderd thousand from Bill Gates but would never do so to the guy for whome that money is his lifetime savings for the old age (or whatever). [It used to say less, it was a typo] [/QUOTE]

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