“Stealing” has never meant exclusively “taking someone’s property”.
The amount of mental gymnastics people will do to justify to themselves something that is so incredibly minor and also wrong. Do you hold yourselves to such high standards that the English language must change before admitting you did something a bit naughty?
So I love this reply because it’s emblematic of missing the point. I am not defending piracy with my original statement, at all. This is your own conclusion. Piracy is still (depending on the country) illegal and subject to punishment and enforcement. If you want to engage or not is entirely up to you, I’m not justifying anything. I am clarifying an important point. Where it matters is in the application of penalties and damages for the aggrieved.
You are “clarifying” incorrectly. Stealing does not mean removal of property. You making up a definition and basing some palid screed around that as a premise is not a point that I missed, it’s a point you based on nonsense.
“Stealing” has never meant exclusively “taking someone’s property”.
The amount of mental gymnastics people will do to justify to themselves something that is so incredibly minor and also wrong. Do you hold yourselves to such high standards that the English language must change before admitting you did something a bit naughty?
So I love this reply because it’s emblematic of missing the point. I am not defending piracy with my original statement, at all. This is your own conclusion. Piracy is still (depending on the country) illegal and subject to punishment and enforcement. If you want to engage or not is entirely up to you, I’m not justifying anything. I am clarifying an important point. Where it matters is in the application of penalties and damages for the aggrieved.
You are “clarifying” incorrectly. Stealing does not mean removal of property. You making up a definition and basing some palid screed around that as a premise is not a point that I missed, it’s a point you based on nonsense.