He also tweeted that it wasn't because he was anti-big daddy. i guess that should eliminate about 95% of the comments on this story.

Requiring manufacturers to use this patented safety device would be denying me my right to cut off my fingers. Stay out of my self-mutilation, government!

Aren't all government programs poorly run and ineffective? Isn't that what we keep hearing about health care? "If you want to have your health care be like the post office...blah blah blah". Why is this different? Can't private industry do a better job?

And then you'll need to get the asshole lawyers involved. (hmn, I wonder if asshole should be capitalized in this usage)

I've stopped going to theater; I just get redbox instead...Why pay $10 so I can be distracted by self-absorbed morons who can't go 20 minutes without checking their messages? Yes, it's a pet peeve. One of many.

Sounds like you are trying to justify your skewed perspective by labeling those who argue others as something they may not be. Intellectually dishonest much?

Syntactically challenged much? And for the record, what about my post is intellectually dishonest?

And speaking of skewed, your argument that you are just "making a copy of something" is outright laughable. There would be no opportunity for you to make that copy if the owner had not expended their creative abilities and time to create the original - thus you are diminishing that work's value by stealing it from them. Worse yet, you're trying to rationalize it as "just making a copy".

Is it as bad as property theft? No, I don't think that it is, but it is still stealing.

Piracy IS stealing. You're taking something from someone else that does not belong to you. Of course, most people have no problem rationalizing this until it's their stuff that's being taken.

Morals are a two-way street.

Uh, no. The problem with the pervasive "well, they did it so I can too" attitude is that anybody can rationalize anything: "I think the other guy is probably cheating, so I will too". "I think my employer is screwing me over, so I'll screw them first". "The company's CEO is getting paid way too much so I'll just help myself to their products". The truth doesn't matter as long as you can come up with an excuse.

If you have conditionally based morals then you have none at all.

Those are just poor people who won't pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like my grandfather did so I wouldn't have to

I wonder if your grandfather would feel so smug.

Sorry your moral relativism is complete BS. I used murder in the legal sense. They broke the law while killing someone. I acknowledge and even agree that they did their time, may have been rehabilitated, and thus are free. But scrubbing the record completely is an insult to their victim and the victim's family.

Someone that has murdered someone should not be thought of "in the same way" as someone who has not.

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Ok Billy. Time for you to get off /. and get to bed.

you say that being a captain just to get chicks is a bad thing?

So...Should we assume you don't buy anything from overseas?

It's effectively the same thing - companies buy cost effective labor and citizens head down to Walmart or the mall to buy cheaper foreign products.