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Right, but is that how you define shoplifting? Shoplifting is when someone buys something, then has it withheld from them, then get a refund, then access that product from someone else offering to share it with them? I guess I was trying to move the conversation away from what I see as a flawed analogy to what I think is technically interesting, and that I have first hand experience with, in that the companies offeri…
No, that's the definition of 'entitled'. When just because its hard to get something, that taking it becomes justified.
To be an issue of entitlement the person would have to say something that sets them apart, akin to: it's ok for me to pirate but for everyone else its bad;
Whereas the gp was just describing their process without applying any opinion on the ethics of others doing the same
an excuse is just an excuse, the special treatment is what makes it entitled
Have you ever pirated anything? If you have then your position would make you the entitled one because you are claiming it is wrong for this person to pirate though you have done so yourself
Why offer your opinion with lazy pithy statements and attempts to compartmentalise complex ideas into a single word?
It reads so demonstrative and finite as if these issues lack any capacity for dialogue
I think your perspective is important to this conversation but I'm unable to access it due to how you are presenting it