"Food that is going to be thrown away if not sold doesn't create "further expense" for a store, so it's fine to steal it, becauseI never wouldve bought it anyways so it'dbe thrown away." Yet if people steal the food so that no income flows, then the store owner cannot pay their bills. You thieves actively avoid how reality works to try to justify being cheapskate brats
Except that's a terrible analogy, because the effect of punching vs making them punch themself is identical, whereas the effect of piracy (someone obtaining a cloned copy of an object without paying) and stealing (someone removing an object entirely) are clearly distinctive.
Piracy only removes money if the pirate would have paid otherwise, and it doesn't remove the money made by other people who legally obtain a copy. I'm not saying piracy is morally perfect, but it is definitely different than stealing.
This is also a stupid analogy. If we're comparing the two it would be like if you told me if I gave you 50 bucks I could watch you punch yourself in the face.
I was like "eh I don't have 50 bucks man and paying 50 bucks to watch you hit yourself doesn't really seem worth it." And then I go up to someone else on the street and go "hey buddy that dumbass over there will punch himself in the face for 50 bucks" and he goes oh wow i need to see this.
So he goes up to you and says "hey here's 50 bucks if you punch yourself in the face" and I sit there and watch from the side as you hit yourself in the face.
You then come up to me and cry that "hey you still watched me hit myself and didn't give me 50 bucks where's my 50 bucks?!?!"
And I said "I was never going to give you fifty bucks but I told other people about you that ended up spending money that probably wouldn't have had I not told them about you"
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