Thanks guy. I got it.

Let me see if I can fairly summarize your argument:

Why do you keep talking about laws? How many times do I have to say that I don't care about the legality of it? You don't respect intellectual property. Got it. I believe you're wrong because people have a RIGHT (moral, not legal) to protect their intellectual property.

Journalism has a POV. I reject the existence of a neutral reporter of facts perspective.

I am a legal positivist; morality and legality are two different things. See wiki on legal positivism if interested.

Nice for you.

I am not interested in the truthiness of the empirical claim that there are tangental benefits to piracy. I'm only contesting the idea that it in some way justifies their behavior individually. Perhaps, a small amount of shop lifting from major companies helps some companies get their product out there (helps their…

Haha I like that Dylan idea. That's how I feel whenever I am sick, tired, or depressed: my values sort of collapse (or at least diminish in value). Nietzche's The Gay Science has a similar idea in it.

An act can be both harmful and helpful (i.e. piracy.). Maybe, piracy benefits some companies. Maybe it doesn't. But I don't think tangential benefits can justify the behavior individually. Ever read Crime and Punishment? It's kind of about this topic.

Sure. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not. But I don't think that the tangential benefits of piracy justify the behavior morally. Because no one wants to see themselves as a bad person, the trope that piracy may have tangential benefits is an attractive argument for people who participate in piracy.

Who said "it seems like most showrunners are realizing a little sacrifice in accepting pirates can eventually add up to bigger ratings and bigger buzz which is better for them"?

Beautifully said. The Facebook political warriors who see Hitler/Vader/Satan/Stalin/Mao everywhere are crazy. Thank God their lazy inductive reasoning skills probably prevent the majority of them from coming up with anything as clever as a way to stop someone's defibrillator.

Alternative headline: Walter White Admits Selling Meth Helped Put His Kids Through College.

$ justifies morally questionable behavior. Is that Gilligan speaking or Walter White?

I don't care.

lol of course, I agree with you. Y can't justify X.

I don't care if God herself climbed down from Mount Olympus to tell me piracy is alright; appeal to authority doesn't work for morality arguments.

Dude, it's a trope. The piracy can cause tangential good trope. Journalists sympathetic to certain tropes do stories containing said tropes. Repetition of tropes over time displays the author's bias. Bias 101.

So, Casey, what you're saying is that I can help support artist's by stealing their material. That's genius! I really wanted some reason to justify my morally questionable behavior, and now you've provided me with just such an argument. You've lifted the burden from my conscious.

Lol Gianrvegies is delusional. IOS changed the way we thought about phones.