Just Because It's Legal, Does That Make it Right?

Just Because It's Legal, Does That Make it Right? #shorts

[@hannahlah3878]

"Well you'd better hope not" I love that delivery

[@oneofmanyjames-es1643]

She's going straight for the throat of every current and former uni student watching this, and taking no prisoners XD

[@kandyappleview]

Never has watching a youtube short made me want to watch the full video so quick.

[@jeanmichellelaurent]

​@@BrianFace182philosophytube is mommy ❤❤

[@Nerobyrne]

"if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't theft"

[@cremecrimson9035]

That is a quote

[@SirArthurTheGreat]

I’m confused

[@marchdarkenotp3346]

​@@SirArthurTheGreatHave you ever played a game that touts itself as a service and needs an Internet connection to play single-player?

[@blarghblargh]

​​​@@SirArthurTheGreat paying to get a digital license for content isn't ownership, as the license can be revoked, whereas actual ownership can't really. At least not in the typical example, where you've fully paid for it. Choosing not to license content but copying it anyway often gets called "theft" but it's a loose analogy, at best. The original is not destroyed, or removed from the owner. It's basically wishful thinking and a magic trick IP owners try to play in order to invent scarcity where it didn't naturally exist. It's so they can keep making money the same way they used to, even though the technology made that business model functionally obsolete. They fearmonger in order to avoid innovating, and we keep letting them because we're stupid.

[@Strogman25]

*Woah*

[@alannatherson7721]

Trying to explain this concept to my family is like trying to dig up bamboo.

[@shadowcween7890]

Digging up bamboo is like trying to dig up flexible rebar. You try to pry it out of the ground and it just moves out of the way, still just as attached to the ground as it was before

[@brecky384]

Oh wow this is a great comparison. I’m going to have to use that one.

[@RamonInNZ]

@@balusters it keep regrowing, can take years to remove ALL babmboo from your property as it can also go dormant for short periods.

[@numbersix8919]

@@brecky384 I always get simile and metaphor mixed up, so thanks for the alternative!

[@numbersix8919]

A bamboo's roots are shallow, but attached to its neighboring bamboos, all of whom are related to each other!

[@ceritusorbis]

“Sometimes what is legal isn't what is right, and sometimes it needs a witch to tell the difference.” - Sir Pterry

[@boneappletee6416]

GNU Sir Pratchett

[@emmakirby8979]

he had a beautiful mind, his books felt so far ahead of his time

[@Uncanny_Mountain]

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance" Carl Sagan 1995. This is why we need to call for Direct Digital Democracy without parties or politicians. Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts. Thorium energy renders their global energy monopoly obsolete

[@ashishhembrom3905]

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. - Adolf Einstein

[@bertbaker7067]

When i first got out of prison and went back to school, i was the only person out of ~25 people in my calc class that didn't download a free pdf of the textbook. I never made that mistake again. Lol

[@billyrussell7789]

feel you one that one (not the prison part) but when i first got to uni, i bought all 5 textbooks i “needed” that semester, to the tune of ~$600AUD… the lecturers didn’t use any of the textbooks while teaching, and the one time any of them even referenced one, he included screenshots of all relevant pages🥲

[@mrbanana6464]

We used a very common textbook in my calculus class (Early Transcendentals by James Stewart) and I took solace in the fact the I didn’t have to buy a commonly available textbook. Unfortunately however the teacher decided to use webassign which meant that I had to buy the textbook if I wanted to do any work for the class.

[@bertbaker7067]

@@mrbanana6464 my class used the same book. I remember because i owned a copy beforehand, but the class used a different edition and assigned problems from the book. So I spent $60 to *rent* a digital copy of the correct edition. Fun fact(sorta): James Stewart was a LGBT activist who unfortunately passed away in 2014

[@numbersix8919]

@@mrbanana6464 Ooh they got you too.

[@unpredictableaxolotl3762]

@@mrbanana6464 my monitor is sitting on top of that book right now :B

[@Egooist.]

_"Wo Unrecht zu Recht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht."_ [Bertolt Brecht] (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.)

[@wile123456]

Well 99.9% of the money for textbooks goes to evil publishers and not actually the authors so it's actually a moral imperative to pirate them to send a message that pay walls need to be deleted and knowledge should be shared freely.

[@WilliamWizer]

I agree. I would gladly send to the authors twice as much as they would had earned if I had bought the book instead of download it. but, evidently, I see no reason for the publishers to get a cent from this transaction between an author and his/her reader. sadly, I can't do this because, among other problems, I would be admitting that I downloaded the book.

[@KCH55]

What's even more annoying is oftentimes they make you think that you need to get a new textbook, even though it's basically the same textbook it's just been slightly tweated

[@WilliamWizer]

@@KCH55 and sometimes is just the exact same textbook. to the point that you can reuse the textbook your brother used the previous year.

[@Abhishek_78]

Thats an interesting way to ratuonalize your unethical behaviour

[@madeline6951]

​@@Abhishek_78How is that unethical? Publishers have nothing to do with the actual intellectual value, they just hoard it to extort money. If the author is encouraging you to pirate their work, it unambiguously good to do so.

[@aidansalt7862]

"Good people disobey bad laws" - A sticker on a trash can (legit)

[@HeisenbergFam]

"well you'd better hope not" PhilosophyTube is the person you do NOT want to have as your enemy

[@ryshow9118]

They are the exact enemy i want. They have grounded, solid arguments. I don't always agree but I'll be damned if I don't appreciate someone who knows WTF they're speaking on.

[@blarghblargh]

​@@ryshow9118opponent, yes. Enemy, probably not. If someone wants me dead, I'd prefer they be stupid and bad at it.

[@Kamikazeman1234]

The only person I see here is Trixie Mephistopheles??

[@ryshow9118]

@@blarghblargh I didn't read closely enough. You are correct. Thank you.

[@henryplumb7459]

@@ryshow9118 Seems to me that friends are just the opponents we meet along the way. :)

[@celia1888]

My law teacher used to tell us "legal does not mean moral" every time someone was upset by it. 'cause we had lots of naive ppl

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

To be fair, I don't think morals should be punishable by law. Protected rights are fine, but forcing people to follow the morals of the law makers is a dangerous thing (if that was the goal of law, D&D might have been banned during the Satanic Panic)

[@truecatholic1]

He ought to have been fired.

[@celia1888]

@@truecatholic1 why ?

[@truecatholic1]

@@celia1888 He was "teaching" the error of legal positivism. This is the essence of it. The best definition of a code of laws is a list of sins that the state will punish. I have seen other comments that compared this idea to the reality of Nazi Germany.

[@zikasha]

I would refrain from calling them naive, though. If they thought of calling out something legal that wasn't moral, then it was probably not naive. That's exactly what people studying law should be doing; bettering the sector.

[@DinahAO]

this debate always opens old wounds because it reminds me of the heated debates id have with my ex over this. he was very much ‘if it’s illegal it is wrong, if it’s legal, it is right’. no room for nuance or, in my opinion, actual morals. used to drive me insane

[@RealFemale69]

Big red flag, it's not that long in many countries that marital rxp3 has been illegal. Would they say it's ok if it was legal!?

[@yes2542]

That's insane

[@MrBbbakersk]

Some low key passive aggressive revolutionary seed here. I like

[@blarghblargh]

Imagine someone sitting on camera by the fire, fully made up, cosplaying as a demon, being called "low key". I'm starting to think the only thing that wouldn't be called low key these days would be the sun exploding

[@bjaogh]

​@@blarghblarghLowkey the death of a star

[@SeaCowsBeatLobsters]

@blarghblargh But op was referring to her speech not her getup. Or did you think seeing devil ears is going to plant the seed of revolution in the minds of the audience?

[@MrBbbakersk]

@@SeaCowsBeatLobsters exactly. Some people won't get off the train tracks depending on who and how the message is said. I get that we perceive everything as some kind of information, the thing is you can deceiving one truth with other stimuli and it often works, sometimes by external influence, others by your own mind (like here). But as they say 2+2 is 4 even if a duck said it.

[@sheepaulie]

I love how much effort, research and production she puts into her videos. Bonus points for sounding so delightfully distinguished.

[@wickjezek5093]

My professor at a community college wrote her own textbook for this reason! It cost $20-25, basically the cost to print.

[@wickjezek5093]

If you're wondering why it wasn't a free download - it was school policy that EVERY class have an assigned, "purchased" textbook.

[@MrMessiah2013]

Sure, it may just be the cost to print, but if the prof had assigned a more widely available text, you could pirate it off the internet for free. By printing her own, she forces you to buy it, giving her money, because who's scanning the entire text of a community college textbook to upload it online? And how are you then going to find it when that prof's class at that specific college is the only one using it? Unless she offered a free pdf, I'd say this is overall a dick move, but not as much of a dick move as requiring you turn in the classes homework through a proprietary online service only offered with the purchase of a monthly license for the textbook from McGraw-Hill. I may be a little salty.

[@jatsko3113]

​@@MrMessiah2013as you pointed out early in your comment, if it's just the cost to print, then the professor isn't turning a profit. I don't see the dick move here.

[@sirdeadlock]

"I'm a law abiding citizen" is an appeal to authority logical fallacy. That doesn't necessarily mean the authority is wrong, but bypassing logical reasoning makes it a fallacy. If someone abides by the law, and the law is immoral, then being law abiding makes them both an immoral person and a person the law will not punish.

[@SynthApprentice]

If laws are social constructs, then so are law-abiding citizens.

[@danielseaburg9763]

like shouting ''from the river to the sea'' yeah? just like that?

[@sirdeadlock]

​@@danielseaburg9763 War does not decide who is right, only who is left. If you bring up any conflict throughout human history as some kind of justification for morality, you will be found wanting for a better foundation to build your logic from.

[@mikalrage7316]

@@danielseaburg9763 Morally and ethically, everyone deserves their own place to live, and to live there free of subjugation. Subjugation and oppression of any human population always contains the seed of the oppressor’s own overthrow and downfall. The only lasting achievements in human history have been built of willing cooperation in everyone’s best interests.

[@lornenoland8098]

Morality, ethics, and the law can sometimes be three different and opposing things

[@yourmom2189]

So true!

[@truecatholic1]

Utter nonsense. You must be a lawyer. It is wrong to be convicted of breaking a "law" (i.e. and unjust law).

[@yourmom2189]

@@truecatholic1 you sound like a black and white thinker but life isn’t black and white. There’s lots of gray and nuance. But that might be to complex for you to understand.

[@truecatholic1]

@@yourmom2189 It might be too complex, but I doubt it. Humans don't have perfect knowledge. That is what courts are for. We can know right from wrong - typically by being taught. But the application of the principles of morality is not always simple.

[@yourmom2189]

@@truecatholic1 but the law really doesn’t have much to do with right and wrong. Like if a parent stole formula to feed their starving baby, is that right or wrong? Sure, people shouldn’t take things that don’t belong to them, but a baby shouldn’t be allowed to starve. If the parent was able to have their basic needs met then they wouldn’t have to steal. To me that is the real crime. That people aren’t able to meet their own basic needs and that the people in power think that’s ok.

[@timothymclean]

It's annoying when a dictator stan argues on the assumption that legal == moral; it's _so_ much more annoying when a nominal;y anti-government Libertarian type does the same. Apparently my dad doesn't trust the government to fund healthcare, but _does_ trust it to dictate right and wrong.

[@blarghblargh]

Some people don't have a consistent worldview. Unless "f*** you, got mine. and I'm damn well keeping it!" is considered a "worldview"

[@UnfortunatelyTheHunger]

Your dad doesn't oppose the government, he opposes the public sector. I wish more people would be aware of that distinction

[@lukeedwards7677]

@@UnfortunatelyTheHunger funny that - most countries' public sectors, hollowing out of competent staff, technically and managerially, aside, are far more trustworthy than elected politicians since they aren't as easy to buy off without consequences for both parties

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

See I'm the opposite. Let the government handle paperwork and funding and all the day to day running of a country, but don't let the lawmakers think for a second they get to tell me what's right and what's wrong, or it will eventually become a dictatorship because every successive person will seize a little more power "to do what is right" and that's not okay

[@RealFemale69]

​@@bobthegamingtaco6073Then in that world the only thing a government would do is serve Capital with no potential for working class politics

[@johncoursey2582]

This look fucking rules and I hope you just live like this sometimes. When you're a certain level of cool you get to do that, and you've been there for quite some time.

[@blarghblargh]

I think living like this would probably grant the requisite cool

[@Ruben-fn5li]

lmfao hell no

[@felix-the-mongoose]

All academic works should be open to the public for free. Who knows what good inventions we would have right now from that.

[@RealFemale69]

Patents have the theoretical potential to protect work, but more often than not they lock science away

[@kspoo10_]

​@RealFemale69 Even the Industrial Revolution was forced to wait for a patent to expire. Patents and copyrights (in their current state) are for the benefit of corporations, not for scientists and artists.

[@RealFemale69]

@@kspoo10_ this, since the invention of the patent we could be decades behind on societal development

[@daltonadams8003]

This video popped up on my feed as I’m literally trying to pirate an academic reference work. I feel so targeted.

[@lyssatiny102]

This outfit, that flawless makeup, your voice… 😳😳

[@RealFemale69]

We all stan her

[@beardlessdragon]

The prices of academic textbooks are what should be illegal :P

[@laincoubert7236]

see, i tried to use that argument but one time they responded with "slavery was good actually".

[@justhearmeout3959]

For what it's worth, that's basically what capitalists respond with to any critique of capitalism 🤷‍♀️

[@laincoubert7236]

@@justhearmeout3959 true, but i was just stunned to hear that *explicitly* from a person i had respected a lot before. not anymore 🤷‍♂

[@justhearmeout3959]

Yeah the misinformation surrounding slavery only seems to be getting stronger 😩 Whenever I see or hear someone say that, I feel exhausted. Like... "I don't have the time or energy to convince you of how wrong you are buddy"... Ugh

[@RealFemale69]

​@@justhearmeout3959Liberal defense of capitalism* a capitalist is a member of the capitalist class, important distinction I do feel

[@andrewbenbow9257]

Free knowledge is the first avenue of a free society!

[@Ida-Adriana]

‘The law made me do it, officer’ - certainly has a ring to it ✨

[@imbaby5499]

I live in Afghanistan so I had to pirate almost every book I've ever read since it costs a LOT to get a foreign book (whether it be a textbook or a novel) here.

[@mascotwithadinosaur9353]

That's what frustrates me when I hear someone go "The legal age of consent..." cuz the legal age of consent can be 5 for all I care. That's still a child who'd being groomed.

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

Legal age of consent is more than just... that. It's basically the earliest age at which we trust you to be "of sound mind and body" meaning legal contracts, last will and testament, etc. That being said, a law against groomers would be nice. As a start, perhaps making it illegal for minors to engage in explicit activity with people twice their age or more? Would stop a lot of creepos without restricting high school romances

[@lysanamcmillan7972]

@@bobthegamingtaco6073 Laws in the United States vary on this, as they will since the Federal government ceded that level of control. But some states do make allowances that way. Because you're right; a 19-year-old and a 17-year-old having sex should not be able to put the older member of the couple into legal trouble. Make the 19yo 29, and that's a whole different level. Personal point there: one of my nieces has a daughter who she conceived when she was 15 and he was 25. I believe she had been drinking at a party someone invited her to and met him there. Her mother metaphorically grabbed him in the shorts and informed him that he owed child support or he would be reported for statutory. He was foolish and predatory but had a strong survival instinct.

[@vulpes7079]

Waat are you implying here? Are you saying people above the normal age of consent (18) are still children?

[@ohboy1057]

@vulpes7079 "normal age of consent" like half of US states have an age of consent that is either 16 or 17 and many more countries have ages of consent that are less than 18. Though I really don't think the point is to call out any specific number as wrong, but rather that using the fact that it's legal as a justification is wrong. The point is more that legally justifying your behaviour does not automatically morally justify it.

[@MrGoldfish8]

​@@vulpes7079Compared to a 40 year old, yes.

[@sampaiosamps9930]

Letter from Birmingham Jail talks about the duty of the good man to obey just laws and disobey unjust ones. Mr. King had a lot to say about this in civil disobedience

[@FeuervogelIra]

Sometimes it's also good that laws do not reflect morality. Is it amoral if a person in a monogamous relationship cheats? Yes definitely. Should it be illegal? I don't think so.

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

Punishing from morality is not the place of law, but granting protections from morality is fine to me (for example, Human Rights are a moral decision. There's no medical basis for granting someone free speech or the right to a fair and speedy trial, and there's no personal reason why your tax dollars have to go to ensuring that other people get healthcare or clean drinking water. These are all "positive" protections, based on morals)

[@RealFemale69]

Remember you can cheat in an open polygynous relationship too

[@chloewebb5526]

I am poor, living in a housing project for the disabled, and still was paying for every single game and program up until about 6 years ago. Now I pirate to have offline files that will stay unchanged for me, because it feels like I can't "own" it even after I've paid for it lately.

[@Gigarayzor]

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."

[@sollyswolly1623]

The accusatory stare when she mentioned textbooks 😅

[@coycadaver]

the patreon at gunpoint bit needs to be a short.

[@jasonjacoby]

So when the devil asks why I did something immoral I will just say "The Law made me do it!"

[@numbersix8919]

Already been done. Nuremberg.

[@jasonjacoby]

@@numbersix8919 since you mentioned it I feel like I should point out that I was being sarcastic 😅💜

[@numbersix8919]

@@jasonjacoby I understand. But it is exactly the foundation of how Western Civilization operates today. I thought you should know that.

[@jasonjacoby]

@@numbersix8919 I do, and I have my guard up. IMO human rights and decency are more holy than the US Constitution, which should always be updated instead of sat on. 💜

[@numbersix8919]

@@jasonjacoby I understand, but you should understand that human rights are only a slogan now, a slogan that has been appropriated by Power for its own purposes. That is the system within which we live. If you play along, you might enjoy an illusion of freedom, rights, opportunity, more or less as you want. But that is all. To see the reality, you must look to the people who are suffering, just outside our bubble of comfort and privilege. In such a situation, the Constitution might offer much more to you -- but access to it is all but impossible now.

[@DaBezzzz]

How do you do those gorgeous horn-buns??

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

she has a devilishly good hairdresser

[@nickibugs]

Thank you sooo much! I wrapped her hair tightly around 2 fingers and pinned closely to her head and sprayed a lot of finishing spray!

[@DaBezzzz]

@@nickibugs Omg thank you for the reply! I'm gonna try it out 100%

[@fredhasopinions]

Why do you look like savaart’s Gothic vampire painting holy shit

[@stalfithrildi5366]

Back in my day we used the library to get access to the copies of textbooks that we didn't own. On the other hand, there was little chance of me being called "very naughty indeed" by PT for pirating them off limewire. That may have changed my choices.

[@kandyappleview]

Same! The Library and used books. I only paid for a brand new textbook if there were no other options.

[@badartxd]

Pirating textbooks is moral and good because it’s done in the pursuit of learning and sticks it to the companies that make higher education unaffordable.

[@nduduzoblose4355]

Priracy is a sociatal neccessity. We must all be pirates, One Piece has been telling us this for years 😂

[@tohstygohstygal]

It's not bad to steal from large corporations. It should be encouraged. ❤

[@spol]

Corporations are owned by people. With that in mind, you are really stealing from people.

[@boobgoogler]

⁠@@spol i feel so bad for jeff bezos needing to buy a gold plated helicopter instead of a platinum plated one

[@DalekBoy]

just like pirating adobe products!

[@catalinsoaita]

the delivery of all jokes in this video was incredibly satisfying

[@alexathegator]

among graphic designers there's a meme that pirating Adobe software is always morally correct, because of how Adobe abuses the system and it's clients 😂

[@ty_teynium]

I thought she was gonna say video games. I was gonna say; why was she looking at me when she said this?

[@user_was_taken]

There's just something about her aura

[@MCSorry]

"To all law-enforcement officials, this is not an admission of guilt."

[@NattyByNature.]

Abby...can I call you Abby?? I just watched The Prince ❤❤❤❤ GUUUUUUURLLLL AMAZING TRULY! I don't normally speak in all caps but they needed to be said bc this is an AMAZING peice of work & you should be so PROUD!!

[@lucasarcanjodedao1209]

This woman made reflext on my life choices better than any teacher ever had...

[@pinstripeowl]

That was fascinating - I'd not made that final step in thinking about the deliberate divorcing of thoughts towards the feeling that drives some of the politics strains that i find so hard engaging with. Great video, build up of historic cameo with the articles was so suspenseful. Similarly ugh the camera angles were so offputting. Nice work

[@WordsofHeresy]

Only god can judge college students for their sins

[@justanotherpersononyoutube2102]

An academic textbook has a higher assigned economic value than it would otherwise have, so obtaining that value through artificial means is entirely ethical, and a textbook acquired in this way should be regarded as equivalent to any other textbook.

[@JDeLauer]

“Well you’d better hope not” Welp they’re on to me

[@user-qm1wc7dc8t]

I always had to pirate my college textbooks or get them late. My grades am And motivation suffered because of it.

[@cheese7119]

My teacher telling us to download and read a list of books from the internet: All the other teachers downloading exercise books from the internet: My English teacher pirating the listening exercises: Everyone watching movies on sketchy websites during class:

[@Nepxnthe_]

i am quaking in my £10 asda sandals

[@matthuck378]

Under capitalism, immoral behavior is encouraged and rewarded with money...And being "good" is punished with less money.

[@repeatdefender6032]

Your videos are so fantastic I always find myself clicking on them before my brain even registers it. kisses.

[@Kinzyray123]

How can you sit so still?

[@RJNoe]

Those who violate textbook copyrights should be spanked. Yes, spank them most harshly. And after the spanking…

[@timothymclean]

Consensually, right?

[@doctahjonez]

Right??

[@drot13]

Spanking with happy end?

[@rhaeven]

the oral sex!

[@AmSeris]

bro..@@drot13

[@davidsiska5363]

I love this channel so much 😍

[@mikalrage7316]

There is a flaw in confusing ethics with the law.

[@Kirbo-i]

RIP Aaron Schwartz

[@ssssss-xb3dh]

Don't tell me what to do I'll pirate everything

[@ssssss-xb3dh]

If I wanted I would even pirate the blueprints to a nuclear bomb, just out of showmanship of piracy, I can not be stopped, I am a mad women!

[@The_Big_Witch]

@@ssssss-xb3dhbased tbh

[@fatimanoorfizza4348]

i love her

[@dk5943]

Keep doing these shorts! I love them!

[@TheKungfuTurtle]

Based and sci-hub pilled

[@mealman0447]

Its almost like whatever society agrees is immoral is immoral. (And sometimes its the ultra rich that decide)

[@Kazutoification]

If murder was legalized, you would think it would always lead to The Purge. However, just because it's legal does not make it okay. If someone engages in The Purge-like behavior, then that opens them up to get Purged, instead.

[@kingkong381]

Never really got into the Purge series beyond the first couple, but, iirc, wasn't that kind of the point of some of the later films in the series? In the second (I think) it's revealed that the Purge is an invention of the upper classes as a means of population control and dividing the working classes. Then in another of the films they show that the upper classes have been trying to urge more violence and mayhem because the working class haven't been violent enough towards each other in their eyes. Turns out that when you have a Purge-like situation most people don't descend into barbarism but simply try and shelter from the storm and even co-operate with each other to survive.

[@RealFemale69]

​@@kingkong381it's also stupid, just because things are no longer illegal doesn't mean people will do them

[@jorgepeterbarton]

I've not seen the Purge but its basically Battle Royale, right? well in that they have explosive collars and are told only one will live so if you don't participate then you'll have your neck exploded iirc. In that case, if you are coerced into obeying an immoral law by punishment, how immoral is the act of obeying the law?

[@StillGamingTM]

RIP Aaron Schwarz

[@Wilker_uwu]

the downloading of that content wasn't even illegal to begin with. it was a huge mess all the way, specially when his defense also lacked the support from the actual university pointed as the victim like wtf

[@susannewhitney3735]

Queen

[@wallysls]

I don't know what i think about this video. But what i can say is that i definitely love the black wings❤

[@BoshBerry]

I just found Nocturne in BG3 and i was like... wait a second, I know that voice 👀👀👀 Excited to hear you in the game, what a masterpiece to get to work on too!

[@rvaladez9279]

I didn't know how to contact you but I've been playing Baldur's gate 3 and I was like "wait a MINUTE....I KNOW THIS bitches voice!!!" And I looked it up and I was right!!!! you did a great job!!! I could feel the emotions and of the fond memories that you alone remembered of your best friend ;w; I cry ;w;

[@EMlNENCJA]

I agree actually! ❤❤❤

[@marshmallowbird6030]

You wouldn’t download a car?

[@georgerogers2120]

"Well you'd better hope not. 3:) " "I have no idea what you're talking about. o o' er... Possession is 9/10ths of the law... Uh... POCKET SAND!"

[@dragonJo69]

Your name must be the law 😈😘

[@MegaChickenfish]

I feel called out. _Correctly._ It was funny, I actually, I asked my teacher of said class if said resource (that I wasn't sure was piracy or not but I sure wasn't buying the textbook) was OK to use, and they dodged the question by basically asking me whether it was moral. I basically figured "as long as I don't copy it and share it further, sure I guess!" There's so much scamming in that industry I should have never worried about it. Just for my certifications each test costs like $200+ PER ATTEMPT, but of course that same company will sell you another several hundred dollar custom study resources! Oh and did we mention the certifications rapidly expire?

[@xtxpxhx]

I felt that 😂

[@bernmarx8558]

I love the very specific example you used. Rip Aaron Swartz

[@vicenteisaaclopezvaldez2450]

Human behaviour is composed of three factors: Thought, Emotion, and actions, emotions and feelings are different in that feelings are the result of emotion being filtered through experience, experience itself is the result of action affecting thoughts, feelings inform actions, in this, law informs feelings by establishing a medium through which resolved, past thought can be recorded and later contrasted to unresolved, present though, it exists to contrast the feelings and experiences of the present to those of the past and even the future: Law is a measure of behaviour, but when people start seeing the law as a way to measure the present, and start using it as a means through which to justify their biases, instead of being a guide for them, they start finding excuses, the law starts being taken by the letter, as if it were factual, instead of following the sentiment behind it, that's where law strays from morality. At least that's what I think currently.

[@RealFemale69]

Most human actions are caused by the humans material conditions

[@muvhusiningimmbara]

I do hope. Yhhhuuu Abigail!!

[@felix-the-mongoose]

Aaron Swartz, Reddic Co-Founder was arrested for stealing e-Books from MIT, his own University. Then was driven to Suicide. He was also an activist, and from what we know a good person in general.

[@jorgepeterbarton]

Are drugs immoral? I fail to see how. They may be a health hazard or even an issue of self harm, but that itself is not illegal by other means. Perhaps some laws could be broken about putting yourself in danger like not wearing a seatbelt, or going to a dangerous area with warning signs. Or that suicide was illegal in the uk 50 years ago. It seems laws should be for choices that will affect others, otherwise its purely personal choice although there can be help to negate the individual's outcome of ttaking such choice, it probably shouldn't be a punitive one.

[@Efiehome]

Eating meat is legal, is it moral?

[@zariaackermann3147]

Do i spy victory rolls?😍

[@nickibugs]

YESSSSS!!! 😘 Well spotted! 🥰✌

[@lewycube]

one time i rented books from my colleges shop and at the end of the semester sold them to one of those street book resellers. later i had to climb into his book van and dig out my books that i sold to him.

[@gd.ritter]

Is there a distinction for a lawyer between things that are Legal and things that aren't Illegal. (difference being explicitly allowed vs not explicitly forbidden/addressed)

[@nomizomichani]

What is "Right"? Who decides what is right, an individual or the society? or maybe it is a social construct. Is it wrong for an individual to believe if it is legal, it makes right? Wrong in what sense?

[@MoonOvIce]

Like pirating games from mega corporations...is it really immoral? And no, it generally doesn't seem to lead to mass lay offs of developers...

[@timand9349]

You are so smart and i trust your knowledge

[@Unsensitive]

I've actually never pirated academic textbooks... Though I did visit a Chinese website for a PDF copy of a hard to find textbook I already own, cause I can text search it.

[@izwe794]

Poor Aaron. Was hoping for a name drop.

[@edwardgoodwin9801]

You are so amazing. I love ur content. I love ur way of talking. I think ur absolutely beautiful. And you definitely got me thinking about ur videos alot. I love everything about you

[@ninjadudeofficial]

Idk we don't have any required textbooks in our first year and most the recommended ones have a digital version we can access. I'll see if that's still the case in 4th year though lol

[@danielcuthbert961]

Do we need laws or should courts rulings be based on individual cases?

[@dr.zoidberg8666]

Democracy is the only thing that makes society freer, more equal, & more just. Essentially your proposal here is just what feudalism was. It would undo all the gains we've had since the French Revolution.

[@danielcuthbert961]

Feudal societies had laws and it's Democratic if the judge and jury are elected

[@dr.zoidberg8666]

@@danielcuthbert961 No, it's not -- judges deciding what is acceptable by fiat is a one-way ticket to authoritarian lawfare. Christ's sake, Hitler was elected & given absolute power by congressional vote. That doesn't make fascism democratic. & feudal society didn't have laws in the way we think of them now (certainly not a legal system). Law was whatever the autocrat decided, as was punishment. Anybody could be imprisoned at any time if the local lord deemed it necessary.

[@RealFemale69]

​@@dr.zoidberg8666you can have democracy without laws. It's the basis of most left wing ideas

[@RealFemale69]

​@@danielcuthbert961people seem to forget that feudal societies had laws and lawyers

[@Whitewizardofwater]

Isn't piracy illegal on the uploader's end, but not the downloader's?

[@blarghblargh]

One, it depends on where you live. Two, often no. It may not often be enforced, but people have been legally fined for downloading. Sometimes thousands of dollars. They probably didn't see jail time tho

[@Wilker_uwu]

also remember that using peer-to-peer methods also makes you the uploader by design, and places like the US have corporate surveillance to the point where people are known to receive cease-and-desist letters from the ISPs enforcing copyright on completely different industries

[@anticorncob6]

Of course not. It's insane when people argue otherwise.

[@drmadjdsadjadi]

Pirating an academic textbook can be immoral (though it still isn’t theft) but it does depend on context and we do need to differentiate between different types of piracy as well as other types of activities. Borrowing a PDF that has DRM from a library that purchased the digital copy is not. Sharing a PDF by lending a friend your device on which the PDF resides s not. Sharing that same device with a few friends is not. Sharing it with the entire world at the same time without any type of DRM and without purchasing the copies you are sharing is immoral. Copying a few pages out of several hundred for your friend is not immoral. Copying a few pages for a friend and charging them a small amount of money for both the copying expense and the time you took to copy it is possibly not immoral. Copying the whole textbook and then selling it to everyone in the entire world at a price below that of the actual author or publisher definitely so that you can make a living off of your piracy is definitely immoral, unethical, and illegal.

[@JimsMaher]

From Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience: "It is not a man’s duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support."

[@RealFemale69]

What