Your moral high ground arguments honestly carry zero weight with me. I couldn't care less about some nonsense about your agreeing or not agreeing to some kind of contract.
Person A states that you should pay X for their product. You don't. There isn't any other argument other than you are just cheap and only do it because you can get away with it. If the same happened to you and affected your income you would be on here whining about how terrible the situation is.
Again everyone would respect you much more if you just said: yeah I'm cheap and can take content for free, so I do.
>Your moral high ground arguments honestly carry zero weight with me
I made no such argument
>Person A states that you should pay X for their product. You don't
Correct. I state you should pay me $20 for reading my post. Are you morally obligated to do so now? This is a serious question, your moral code is not clear to me. Mine is quite simple. I am not morally obligated to capitulate to random people's arbitrary demands of me.
>If the same happened to you and affected your income you would be on here whining about how terrible the situation is.
Yes, if I were a different person I would be a different person. That is not a very impressive insight.
>Again everyone would respect you much more if you just said: yeah I'm cheap and can take content for free, so I do.
I have no problem with how much respect I am given right now. Your need to try to rationalize your morality does not require making stupid assumptions about people you don't know.
>Correct. I state you should pay me $20 for reading my post. Are you morally obligated to do so now? This is a serious question, your moral code is not clear to me. Mine is quite simple. I am not morally obligated to capitulate to random people's arbitrary demands of me.
These types of idiotic pretzel logic statements only appear since you are trying hard to justify not paying someone for the content they create, there isn't much more to say than that.
If you could let go of your irrational fear for a moment and read what you respond to, you would notice I've made absolutely no effort at all to justify it. That's the point. There's nothing to justify. When I donate money it is to a cause I consider worthwhile. "I said so" is not a cause I consider worthwhile. You can send my $20 here: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
Great! At least we are in agreement that you are cheap and have no problem not paying certain people for their work since you won't suffer any repercussions.
So are you going to answer my question or not? I've very politely and patiently explained my perspective for you several times in spite of your consistent trolling. Are you donating $20 on my behalf or not?
Person A states that you should pay X for their product. You don't. There isn't any other argument other than you are just cheap and only do it because you can get away with it. If the same happened to you and affected your income you would be on here whining about how terrible the situation is.
Again everyone would respect you much more if you just said: yeah I'm cheap and can take content for free, so I do.