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Originally Posted by jihadjoe75  I think I feel it more and more everyday, especially after reading many of the responses here. |
Your honesty is appreciated and as someone who is on a daily basis surrounded by people such as yourself, I too can confirm that what you say is absolutely true in regards to everyone doing it. And you need to be heard despite your reasoning being wrong and immoral by social standards. Because what you describe is exactly the issue that has to be dealt with and can't be dismissed. It sums up the problem. If back when I was a kid we had access to the same technology, I have no doubt that I and all of my friends would be acting the same way as you are. And I think anyone that says otherwise is being dishonest.
It's simply too easy not to do and the moral guilty from a single person is too little. It's the collective damage that's the problem. It's that kids haven't the experience to understand the problem with what they are doing. They don't have the life experience to have value in many things. And they are kids and can't be expected to. It was only our technical limitations that stopped those of us who are older.
But let me ask you this. If there was a good chance that you could get an arrest record for doing it, would you still do it? If the chances of getting caught were about the same as if you went into a store and stole something would you still do it? Or maybe a better question would be: Would you still do it as much?
If there was no central location to go to and in order to find a song you had to go through 100 list services, would you do it as much?
If it took 30 minutes to download a song instead of 10 seconds, would you spend the extra time downloading to get the same amount of songs you would now?