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Copyright trolls are ontologically evil and a lot of spiritual warfare is waged to make sure they reincarnate as cockroaches.


Your inability to provide a single example, which would immediately disprove my point, is the evidence.


I think things are moral unless proven immoral.


Morality is self-interest. Piracy isn't immoral because they aren't staked in the impacted industries. Eating meat isn't immoral because it's in their self-interest to keep doing it. What is immoral are things that would impact them, like if I stole their property, or if I take credit for their code at work, or if I ate their dog. Morality is easy to understand when you realize everyone is a hypocrite who uses their large brains to construct post hoc justifications, not unlike LLM confabulations. You can't argue against it because you'll get yet another confabulation conveniently aligned with self-interest. We don't even realize we're doing it. It's so baked into our neurology.


> or if I ate their dog

Well, eating an unauthorized copy of their dog.


And your post isn’t a ham sandwich. An equally useful and interesting observation.




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