The whole Stallman talking point about how stealing a physical commodity is truly "stealing" but IP infringement isn't because true "stealing" leaves someone without the thing they originally had It's kind of... backwards? That's why it's not that big a deal?
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Precisely because I can't instantly shoplift all the art supplies from a craft store at once and distribute them to the whole country at once and make it so no one can ever make a living selling them again?
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Ironically, the Internet, by replacing brick-and-mortar retail with delivery services, has made shoplifting of the traditional kind much more difficult (and by so doing imposed a certain degree of burden on the poor) but people don't seem to really complain about that
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Anyway of course I don't think shoplifters as a general class of people are somehow heroes but the sheer amount of Internet rage over someone drawing a comic *depicting* shoplifting from when they were younger is just very... interesting to me
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once in college this drunk guy got a whole basket of food at the corner store and then just walked out. Asked the clerk what the hell and they said it wasnt worth it
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It's still interesting that the only strong anti-shoplifting argument is that the innocent employees of the store will get punished. I think it's a decent reason not to shoplift, but morality-wise "don't misbehave, because if you do the authority figure will punish others" is odd
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in any other context the unjust punishment would be viewed as a standalone evil, and the behavior that triggered it would be seen as incidental
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