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Morality is not subjective? Can you explain how one determines, in an objective way, whether or not an act is moral? Is there a fundamental theorem of morality that I am unaware of?


FYI, objective morality doesn't require knowledge of moral axioms for people to observe particular instances of morally objective facts. Just as we don't need to know quantum physics to observe physical facts.

Anyways, if morality isn't objective, why get offended when someone insists that it is? He isn't doing anything immoral...


Does perpetuate moral humanity work? Of course, it is a necessary, but not sufficient sort of principle.


Easy: if an act does not impose force, threat, or fraud, it is moral.


Easy: if an act does not impose force, threat, or fraud, it is moral.

Well then by your "easy" definition, theft (within the context of piracy) is not a threatening force, is not fraudulent nor does it require force.

So you have just defined Piracy as a moral thing to do.

You just lost your own original argument by your own definition. Nice job.


You obviously misunderstood what I said; "force" does not only apply to physical things: it runs the gamut from plagiarism to patent infringement.

You are forcefully (and wrongly) obtaining media in that you have not first obtained the consent of the owner or producer.


But other people clearly have a different opinion of what constitutes force. So we're back to the beginning. I would suggest using a different word, since your definition of "force" very much bends the standard English meaning. In particular, it's hard to use the verb form in regards to piracy: nobody is "forcing" anyone to do anything.

Edit: the physical meaning of force ("I forced the lock") doesn't really apply either...


Oh is it easy? And downloading a movie falls into which of those categories?

It's certainly not force or threat, so it must be fraud. In which case:

Can you explain how one determines, in an objective way, whether or not an act is fraudulent?




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