On May 15, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Jeremy Tregunna wrote: > > On 15-May-06, at 7:03 PM, Elliot Temple wrote: > >> But is every case of piracy deserving of the same great scorn? > > Yes. > >> I realise this may be a tangential issue, but if someone can't >> afford a book and is not going to buy it either way, whom has he >> harmed by downloading it? > > That's like saying that you're stuck with someone, and you're not > going to share your food either way, so what harm is there in > killing the person now instead of letting him starve to death. > That's just a silly way of thinking. The harm there is that he would die sooner than he would if he were left un-murdered. He loses that amount of his life. But the thing is, who is harmed in the hypothetical case I described? -- Elliot Temple http://www.curi.us/blog/