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Leythos
20100221 said:You may be doing it in your country but in UK (United Kingdom) this is a
complete NO NO as far as DELL-UK and HP-UK are concerned.
Then you should have conditioned your statement to indicate that.
20100221 said:You may be doing it in your country but in UK (United Kingdom) this is a
complete NO NO as far as DELL-UK and HP-UK are concerned.
Gordon
He is not new at all but keeps he changing his name. He is usually deleted off the
server and that is the reason why . He is a Troll and has a very vile tongue
Leythos said:What a person CAN do and what is legit are often two different things.
Pirating software, as you describe above, is unethical and dishonest,
something that selfish and immature types do and advocate.
Dell branded OS's are OEM licensed for installation ONLY on the system
the media was provided with. If you are installing it on a NON-DELL
computer then you're clearly violating the licensing agreement and an
unethical person.
Anybody who keeps changing his name does it avoid people's killfiles.
By definition, that makes him a troll.
Leythos said:Piracy is unethical.
[email protected] said:"Unethical" is a subjective judgment
Leythos said:And yet you clearly understand my statement and position on your piracy.
C said:"Unethical" is a subjective judgment, usually based on some religion;
in your case, probably Christianity. In Gypsy societies, for example,
not only is stealing ethical, it's taught to their children and
considered a good way to make a living.
So, at the end of the day,
all you can say is that you think your god would disapprove and you
would go to Hell after you die if you don't follow the ethics of your
religion.
This does not, however, give you the right to push your
ethics on others, although Christianity doesn't have a strong record
of not doing such.
And yet you clearly understand my statement and position on your piracy.
What exactly does piracy mean? Is the act of violating somebody's patent
piracy?
It seems nobody knows what this term actually mean.
Daave said:Almost everything is subjective.
However, consensus (like with most
climatologists' acceptance of the phenomenon of anthropomorphic climate
change) can be measured and expressed objectively.
Also, religion is certainly not necessary for ethics. Many ethics (and
ethicists for that matter) are agnostic or atheist.
In the dominant culture, there is a consensus on what is and isn't
ethical (not 100% agreement, but a definite consensus, nonetheless). I
would say it is safe to say that the pirating of software or DVDs is not
considered by most to be ethical behavior.
I am not an expert on "Gypsy societies," so I have no comment on the
veracity of that.
However, stealing is considered unethical in the
larger, dominant society that most of the participants in this newsgroup
are a part of.
God has very little, if anything at all, to do with ethics, IMO.
You can
easily argue that ethics as well as other societal features have
developed as a result of evolution. For an enlightening perspective, I
refer you to B.F. Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity.
I am no apologist for Chrisitianity, so again I have no comment one way
or the other. Although you may disagree with Leythos's statement, he has
every right to express it, just as you do to dispute it.
Leythos said:It's clear from your trolling that you know exactly what is meant by
Piracy in this context.
[email protected] said:You accused me of piracy out of the blue and now won't explain. Where is
your proof?
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