Thread: Is it okay for a student with limited financial resources to pirate software?
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geohsia is offline geohsia
2010-09-19 , 07:30
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Originally Posted by extendedping View Post
So its cool that life is inherently unfair...that people get the short end of the stick. Well as long as a corporation doesn't get screwed. That would be wrong.
Um, no its not cool but that doesn't give you a license to steal. How about this, send us your address and we'll send all of the homeless people in your city and take all the stuff they need. Yeah, what's wrong with that? They're starving and hungry. You'd be glad to right that wrong, right?

The bottom line to your thinking is that its a good thing as long as its someone else's dime. Once it's yours, then wait, hold up. That's not right.

Originally Posted by extendedping View Post
Everything is relative and should be judged in a context. Did Harvard not take the Kennedy's money because they knew the family amassed it illegally? If some kid can't afford some software and he is not stealing it off of some other kids table, please don't compare this to the great train robbery.
We're talking about right and wrong. Let's talk specifics. What software? Photoshop? you can it for like $199 (someone else said) or maybe it's Office fo rlike $70. Can not this starving child save $70? Unless that child is literally naked and starving I'd say he can probably scrimp and save.

That college boy will spend more on the cool laptop he wants or MCB or iPod. But somehow they find money for that. Let's be real. Kids that need software in college have student labs they can go to to get access to everything they need. Don't pretend that the student will die or all of a sudden lose his brain and fail because he won't. He just has to work a little harder.

Originally Posted by extendedping View Post
BTW in the usa we have affirmative action. Different races get tons of breaks on tests,
Wait, your saying if you're black you can get higher scores on tests because of the color of your skin? Seriously. No.... that's wrong... I know we disagree, but trust me, Affirmative Action doesn't give you different test scores. I'm pretty sure about that.

Originally Posted by extendedping View Post
on financial aid, on job placement etc. Now go back to the time of slaves and ask if a slave had the moral right to steal...I'd say hell yes to that. again things are all relative and belong in a context.
The fact that you would belittle the plight of blacks from the past by comparing them to students? You have got to be kidding.

Slaves were kidnapped, beaten, sold, raped and forced to work in inhuman conditions against their will and you compare it to students that a) want to go to college b) know that in order to go to college they need school supplies?

So no, they're not the same and you're still wrong. I mean if you follow your thinking that poor students have a moral right to steal, then what prevents them from taking other "rich" student's laptops?

And what constitutes poor? Naked and starving or the student too lazy to get off their *** and get a job and only live off the allowance their mom gives them? Please.
Last edited by geohsia; 2010-09-21 at 16:55.