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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.

From	"James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, sci.physics, alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.cellular-phone-tech
Subject	Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.
Date	2017-04-27 22:03 +0100
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Message-ID	<op.yzdgrwezjs98qf@red.lan> (permalink)
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:09:19 +0100, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <op.yywr58z4js98qf@red.lan>, James Wilkinson Sword
> <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:
>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Go look up how many people use torrents.  It ain't just me.
>> >> >
>> >> > doesn't make it legal.
>> >>
>> >> So what?
>> >
>> > what other laws do you ignore?
>>
>> I regularly break 6 laws at once when driving.
>
> then you're a very unsafe driver, putting everyone at risk. one day
> you'll crash or get caught. maybe both. hopefully you won't injure or
> maim other people with your stupidity.

You assume laws and safety are the same thing.

>> >> > one day you'll get caught.
>> >>
>> >> All billion of us?
>> >
>> > one day your number will come up.
>>
>> And half the population of the world?  Are they going to jail us all?
>
> half the population are not criminals.

They are by your definition.  Half the population download copies of things.

>> >> > and then there's your sheer lack of ethics.
>> >>
>> >> Ethics serve no useful purpose, they just make things more expensive.
>> >
>> > do you murder people because you're mad at them?
>> > steal from them because you want their stuff?
>>
>> I don't murder or steal.
>
> yet. everyone who steals starts small.

I've not started.  Copying isn't theft.

>> I make copies.
>
> not while driving, you don't.

Irrelevant.

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