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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If I steal food from the store, I'm both robbing the store, and a community that would have paid good money for that food.

If I go to the store and magically have the items on the shelves be duplicated into my cart, and I don't have to pay for them. That is not a crime that is a miracle

[–] Sheeple 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Consider this. (big chain) Stores already steal from the community via profits they make.

[–] EmpathicVagrant 20 points 1 year ago

And while we’re on about food, look at how much the grocery stores toss out.

[–] aidan 8 points 1 year ago

Exactly true, and as applied to patents: if I steal your fish you go hungry, if I watch how you fish and do the same we both eat.