WtfEvenIsExistence ✓@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?message-squaremessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down111
arrow-up145arrow-down1message-squareWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?WtfEvenIsExistence ✓@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square64fedilink
minus-squareFrater Mus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down1·11 months agoNo. My behavior is derived from ethics, not from law.
minus-squareHelix 🧬@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·11 months agoWhat if the company you’re stealing from is ethically bankrupt?
minus-squareCuriousGoo@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 months agoLike Adobe / Microsoft / Google / Meta / … maybe most large enterprises ? No question about it.
minus-squareDubious_Fart@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agodownloading software isnt theft, soooo unless you are breaking into their offices its not really stealin from them.
minus-squareCuriousGoo@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoWarez piracy is anyway not “stealing” since you’re not taking the digital item away, tis something which can be infinitely copied.
minus-squareNewwit@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoMeta, Google and Microsoft sell’s hardware though. Not too sure about adobe
No. My behavior is derived from ethics, not from law.
What if the company you’re stealing from is ethically bankrupt?
Like Adobe / Microsoft / Google / Meta / … maybe most large enterprises ? No question about it.
downloading software isnt theft, soooo unless you are breaking into their offices its not really stealin from them.
Warez piracy is anyway not “stealing” since you’re not taking the digital item away, tis something which can be infinitely copied.
Meta, Google and Microsoft sell’s hardware though. Not too sure about adobe