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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We pirate because we're selfish but use every excuse in the book to convince ourselves otherwise...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If we were selfish, we wouldn't be sharing our files in the first place, and the system would fall apart.

It's the fact that we aren't selfish that filesharing works at all.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

More mental gymnastics