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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 2724063" data-attributes="member: 1">Really, I'm not!My point is that the initial premise was that there was no problem in committing a particular crime (illegal downloads) due to not having an ethical problem with it.&nbsp; I felt that one's personal ethics don't override those of society's, and that that wasn't justification enough for the illegal act.&nbsp; There are people out there with the most bizarre ethics, but we don't accept those personal beliefs as justifcation for criminal behaviour - we arrest them and lock them up just the same.&nbsp; That's because society's ethics (in the form of codified law) have overridden the individual's; society has ruled the individual's ethics as, for want of a better word, &quot;wrong&quot;.So, I take exception to the cncept of someone happily committing illegal acts because their &quot;ethics&quot; allow them to - as a concept.&nbsp; I recognise that there are exceptions, and even cases where such acts must or should be taken, but the pilfering of leisure goods is not one of those cases.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 2724063, member: 1"] Really, I'm not! My point is that the initial premise was that there was no problem in committing a particular crime (illegal downloads) due to not having an ethical problem with it. I felt that one's personal ethics don't override those of society's, and that that wasn't justification enough for the illegal act. There are people out there with the most bizarre ethics, but we don't accept those personal beliefs as justifcation for criminal behaviour - we arrest them and lock them up just the same. That's because society's ethics (in the form of codified law) have overridden the individual's; society has ruled the individual's ethics as, for want of a better word, "wrong". So, I take exception to the cncept of someone happily committing illegal acts because their "ethics" allow them to - as a concept. I recognise that there are exceptions, and even cases where such acts must or should be taken, but the pilfering of leisure goods is [i]not[/i] one of those cases. [/QUOTE]

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