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Originally Posted by BrianT  And therein lies the whole secret to the OP's rationalization of stealing. Since he is magnanimous enough to give away his music (which is BTW not very good in his own estimation), he can feel better about taking music from other people. The fact that those other people do not wish to give their music away is thereby rendered irrelevant.
Since he gives his bad music away for free, they should give him their good music for free as well.
Humans are clever creatures. They can make sense out of the most senseless of their own actions. |
Exactly.
Except you forgot to mention the OPs other justification. Which is that because he has not worked a whole career to develop a craft and have to support a family, because he works a unskilled job at $8 hour, it's OK to steal from others who work harder than he does. And after all, according to him art was not meant to be anything more than a hobby. So maybe we can all work at fast food restraunts for $8hr and steal music. Oops, there wouldn't be any to steal then would there?
When I was in college I think I made something like $5/hour for an unskilled job. And CDs were the same price then as they are now despite people making more income. We didn't steal and then try to justify it as not having the money. We saved up and learened to value things instead of just feeling like we have entitlement to it. I want a Farrari but I can't afford one because they charge too much money. Maybe I should go steal one. I' be more than happy to attempt to build cars and give them away for free afterall....