Re: Let's boycott the record industry (LONG)

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From: Chris Smith
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:00

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Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

| If I think I should be able to do something that happens to be
| illegal, that means I have a potential negative consequence to weigh
| into whether or not I do it, but just being illegal certainly
| doesn't make it morally wrong.

There's a group of people around here who feel the car pool lane is
for car pools plus anybody who's willing to pay the fine if caught.
Good?

I say no.  It is immoral to accept other people's foregoing the
opportunity to push their interest over yours, but fail to extend them
the same forbearance.  To fail to honor the social contract.  To shove
things to the bad equilibrium of the prisoner's dilemma.

In the case of corrupt laws, I have no disagreement.  Even merely bad
laws.  (Genuinely bad, not just disagreeable.)  But without some such
overriding consideration, just being illegal *does* make it morally wrong.

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From: htimsc@moc.rric.pcuu.orobenots (Chris Smith)
Subject: Re: Let's boycott the record industry (LONG)
Date: 2000/08/14
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