We have a perfectly viable comparison and you’re still just a douche who steals games that people worked hard to make who then goes on the internet to argue with people about it.

I agree that morality should be considered in either case. I never said otherwise. I simply said the specific analogy used was a bad one (for the reasons I outlined and you did not actually address).

If you are trying to illustrate the significance of personal morality through analogy... try to make a good analogy.…

That is pretty much what I said.

I didn’t say otherwise. I’ll just copy-paste my response to another person that made the same sort of assumption about my comment.

Was there a question in there somewhere?

I guess my ultimate point is that media piracy is nothing new... and it hasn’t suddenly become amoral. It always was and always will be. The difference is that these days you can actually sue someone for it (the digital trail)... where-as it was prohibitively difficult to do so in the past. The law perceived it as…

We were having a discussion about morality. If I buy a game legally and lone it out to 10 people (each of whom would have bought the game, had I not loaned it to them) is that not harming the original rights holder?! Does it actually make a difference if we’re passing around a physical copy that was originally…

In all fairness to the OP, if his mother was a saint it still works for his analogy because it shows a complete lack of morality on the part of the pisser.

The difference between 0 and 0.0000001% is vast. Its the difference between something being possible and something being impossible. That is huge.

... don’t even get me started on the large scale re-sale market for video games. This has been ripping off rights holders for years! 3rd parties get to buy up cheap copies of games that people are done with and resell them and very rarely do the original rights holders (the actual makers of the games) get to see any…

I never claimed to... my point is that none of us know their mother. There is no common point of reference upon which an analogy/joke must build.

I replaced my purchase with numerous others (or so the pirate would say, based on the scenario I mentioned). If, for example, someone comes over to my home and plays the game I rightfully paid for... did they just steal it? They didn’t make a digital copy of the game but they did enjoy it at no cost to themselves.…

Morality is a much stronger reason not to do it.

That is probably largely true. My comment wasn’t really regarding the efficacy of the law... simply its presence as a meaningful variable in addition to a largely unenforced and rather nebulous sense of what is right or wrong (morality).

You seem to be forgetting about the most pragmatic of reasons... law.

That is a bad analogy/joke... there is no “reward” in this instance (unless you find pleasure in your mom drinking piss). You could have used “mother-in-law” and it would have made a bit more sense (in the context of a world where we are all familiar with mother-in-law jibes).

*looks on dubiously at the assumptions made based on polls*

Bernie never had to contend with the full force of the counter-campaigns against the official DNC nominee... if you look back... Hillary’s approval ratings were very high, pre-nomination, as well.

Your comment doesn’t make sense to me. There is a difference between a civilian and a police officer giving people reasonable instructions. You have every right to ignore the former...

I think you are absolutely right. The real problem is the cavalier way the Comcast employees (not being children, police or fire trucks saving peoples lives) disregarded the dangers of the situation.

I completely get why they wouldn’t want to move the truck but putting some additional cones out was absolutely not an…

That is what Jim said... obviously they should have put out more cones.