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Thought experiment for piracy (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by zephyr@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Imagine a cinema has a peeping view from the outside. Is it immoral to peek through the view? I.e: is it considered stealing to do that?

If instead of the cinema, the place was a classroom. Or a workshop, are you considered a theive?

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[–] BlackSpasmodic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

It's more important to me to consider the ethics or morality of the situation rather than the legality. Laws, especially in the US, are built to protect those in power, aka those with money. In all of those situations, you'd be considered a thief. But the idea that education is a commodity is immoral in the first place. So I have no qualms about the classroom and workshop. The cinema either.