Originally Posted by
Morning Glory
how can you call us greedy and theives for wanting what is basically our constitutional right in the first place and that is free media? free press means free media. telling people that they can't distribute any means of information, even if it's digital, is as much violation of that as banning people from what content they can exchange in writing on paper. growing technology doesn't negate the core existance of what a democratic society should be, if anything it should serve to further it.
I hear this argument all the time "but it costs money to do this and that, so how can we give it away for free?" once again it's replacing one thing with another and using a negative outcome to justify negativity, disguised as common morality or whatever. before you accept profit margins as the word of GOD, why don't you question who made it that way in the first place? It was greed and theft that made things that once were free no longer free, so that people could profit from them. The system doesn't justify itself. and again and again it comes back to the question of media and art. Do we only make art, do we only express human feeling through music, through acting, through writing, because we profit from it? or is being able to do what we love doing justification enough for it?
If not, then it is just a system of greed and theft, and that's the only thing that's exchanged. all else is just a means to serve the bottom line at all costs. In such a system where the only purpose is to do what's best for ME then why should I not steal from anyone and everyone else? after all thier production is the same ethic and isn't really based on distribution at all.
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