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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2722851" data-attributes="member: 19675">You mean that one is a physical good and one is a good that is either entirely electronic or exists simultaneously in a physical and a co-equal electronic state?I don't see that as a flaw.&nbsp; Theft is theft, regardless of the physical nature of the object stolen.&nbsp; The only way in which the physical state of an object matters is in the methods of theft available to the thief, that is, the physical nature of the object to be stolen affects how easy or difficult the theft ultimately becomes.If I wish to rob banks, I can go in with a gun and a mask and demand physical cash, or I can hack my way into the international electronic banking system and misdirect electronic cash transfers.&nbsp; That one method relies obtains physical objects directly and the other obtains data that may be transmogrified into physical objects is...immaterial. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Apologies...that was meant to read &quot;If I buy an option on a movie script and never intend to use it...No, I'm saying that because we percieve the value of fresh water as lower than it really is, we waste more of it than we would if we integrated all of the costs associated with obtaining fresh water into its price.While water covers 70% of the Earth's surface, only 3% of that water is fresh water, and only .03% of THAT is surface water.&nbsp; It has been estimated that 99.7% of all water in Earth's ecosystem is usable by humans for ingestion.(<a href="http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html" target="_blank">Water</a> )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 2722851, member: 19675"] You mean that one is a physical good and one is a good that is either entirely electronic or exists simultaneously in a physical and a co-equal electronic state? I don't see that as a flaw. Theft is theft, regardless of the physical nature of the object stolen. The only way in which the physical state of an object matters is in the methods of theft available to the thief, that is, the physical nature of the object to be stolen affects how easy or difficult the theft ultimately becomes. If I wish to rob banks, I can go in with a gun and a mask and demand physical cash, or I can hack my way into the international electronic banking system and misdirect electronic cash transfers. That one method relies obtains physical objects directly and the other obtains data that may be transmogrified into physical objects is...immaterial. :cool: Apologies...that was meant to read "If I buy an option on a movie script and never[B] intend[/B] to use it... No, I'm saying that because we percieve the value of fresh water as lower than it really is, we waste more of it than we would if we integrated all of the costs associated with obtaining fresh water into its price. While water covers 70% of the Earth's surface, only 3% of that water is fresh water, and only .03% of THAT is surface water. It has been estimated that 99.7% of all water in Earth's ecosystem is usable by humans for ingestion.([URL=http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html]Water[/URL] ) [/QUOTE]

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