As someone unfamiliar with your views, I can’t tell whether this is sarcasm or not, especially because of the interrobang. Can you clarify? Is there anywhere on the internet where your views are concisely summarized? (Is it in any way associated with your real name?)
The levels can be hard to disambiguate so I sympathize. I’ll write my opinions out unironically. You can find the full arguments in my comment history (I can dig links to that up too).
I’m assuming you are familiar with the arguments for efficent charity and optimal employment? If not I can provide citations & links. I don’t think Sea Piracy as a means to funding efficient charity is obviously worse from a utilitarian perspective than a combo with many legal professions. It may or may not be justified, I’m leaning towards it being justified on the same utilitarian grounds as government taxation can be. If not cheating on taxes to fund efficient charity is a pretty good idea. Some people’s comparative advantage will lay in sea piracy.
Violating copyright on software or media products in the modern West is in general not a bad thing. But indiscriminately pirating everything may be bad.
In the grandfather comment I was aiming for ambiguity and humour.
I mean, assuming that sea piracy to fund efficient charity is good, media piracy to save money that you can give to efficient charity is just obviously good.
We often seperate endorsing things from believing they are good, as endorsing them implies you would like them to be prevalent which leads to collective action issues. (E.g. I think it is ok to occasionally take more than your share share of the cake if you’re hungry, I wouldn’t encourage it as then there wouldn’t be any cake left)
Because few people actually spend much money on copyrighted stuff they could pirate instead these days, so it’s just assumed that anyone trying to do efficient charity already has more money than if they had paid for all the copyright media they’ve consumed?
Efficient charity folks are really serious about morality though and generally well off. They may have compartmentalized deontological beliefs to buy media material you consume. I bet they are more likely to pay for copyrighted works than the average person.
And if you are going out to the movies or buying popular books off Amazon you should be reminded to pirate more.
As someone unfamiliar with your views, I can’t tell whether this is sarcasm or not, especially because of the interrobang. Can you clarify? Is there anywhere on the internet where your views are concisely summarized? (Is it in any way associated with your real name?)
The levels can be hard to disambiguate so I sympathize. I’ll write my opinions out unironically. You can find the full arguments in my comment history (I can dig links to that up too).
I’m assuming you are familiar with the arguments for efficent charity and optimal employment? If not I can provide citations & links. I don’t think Sea Piracy as a means to funding efficient charity is obviously worse from a utilitarian perspective than a combo with many legal professions. It may or may not be justified, I’m leaning towards it being justified on the same utilitarian grounds as government taxation can be. If not cheating on taxes to fund efficient charity is a pretty good idea. Some people’s comparative advantage will lay in sea piracy.
Violating copyright on software or media products in the modern West is in general not a bad thing. But indiscriminately pirating everything may be bad.
In the grandfather comment I was aiming for ambiguity and humour.
I mean, assuming that sea piracy to fund efficient charity is good, media piracy to save money that you can give to efficient charity is just obviously good.
Is so incredibly obviously good that I’m mystified no one is promoting it. I think the main reason is because it is “illegal”.
We often seperate endorsing things from believing they are good, as endorsing them implies you would like them to be prevalent which leads to collective action issues. (E.g. I think it is ok to occasionally take more than your share share of the cake if you’re hungry, I wouldn’t encourage it as then there wouldn’t be any cake left)
Because few people actually spend much money on copyrighted stuff they could pirate instead these days, so it’s just assumed that anyone trying to do efficient charity already has more money than if they had paid for all the copyright media they’ve consumed?
Efficient charity folks are really serious about morality though and generally well off. They may have compartmentalized deontological beliefs to buy media material you consume. I bet they are more likely to pay for copyrighted works than the average person.
And if you are going out to the movies or buying popular books off Amazon you should be reminded to pirate more.