• Zozano@lemy.lol
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    3 hours ago

    Who do you think pays the people?

    billionaire corposluts

    You can argue that ultimately we pay the billionaire corposluts, which actually is my point. Maybe stop doing that.

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      3 hours ago

      You can argue not paying anything at all which means even the workers is moral, which is actually my point. Maybe stop doing that.

      You want to pirate? Go for it, but don’t act like you’re a saint for doing so. Yeah scrooge won’t get his 90%. Cratchit doesn’t get his 10% either.

      If you actually cared about being moral you wouldn’t need to pirate because you wouldn’t partake at all, you wouldn’t watch any of it. That would be the actual moral path.

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        2 hours ago

        Yeah scrooge won’t get his 90%. Cratchit doesn’t get his 10% either.

        Scrooge already paid everyone for the movie.

        It’s like saying “nooo don’t steal Nestle products, the workers need to be paid”

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          2 hours ago

          No, it’s like saying don’t use nestle products at all if you want to claim to be moral.

          You’re arguing that you are moral by not paying for it while still chomping down on nestle chocolate. (And yes I know your follow up “but it’s still there I didn’t steal” that’s not the point)

          I’m saying you can pirate, but you can’t also claim to be moral while doing it because the only moral option is to not use it at all. Go ahead, do what you like, but by using it at all its immoral.

          The Baker baked the bread. If the baker is so evil and treats his workers so terribly, you aren’t exactly in the moral place by still eating his bread.

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            1 hour ago

            Actually I’m arguing that paying for it is immoral, and that I’m moral by not paying for it.

            Consuming a product that you have not paid for is not inherently immoral, regardless of whether it’s bread or a movie.

            Basically my argument is: it is immoral to needlessly funnel wealth towards billionaires, when that wealth could be distributed towards those who aren’t billionaires.