>>>For Rick there is no such thing as software piracy. The premise is that God gave you the ability to write software (or some other skill) and desires that you use that skill to benefit your fellow man. However, you decide to use that skill to only benefit yourself (that's greed, not piracy). You do that by claiming exclusive ownership of the software even though ultimately it was God's gift to you for the benefit of all. In order to enforce that claim of ownership, and indeed to legitimize it, you need to defend it against those that would take a copy without your consent and hence you create the concept of a software pirate.
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>>>For Rick, you never owned the software in the fist place - your ability to create it was God given for the benefit of all. And it would not harm you to allow others to make copies since it costs nothing to make the copy. Once again, if you accept the premise then the conclusion naturally follows.
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>>But by the same premise you can say that there is no such thing as anything because god created everything and gives everything there is...except there must be such a thing as anything because everything belongs to god? What kind of twisted philosophy is this?
>>Tell ya what there are guys in jail right now that will dispute this claim of software piracy doesn't exist and I think a court of law would have a problem with this too. That sounds pretty real to me. If the claim was software piracy should not exist because of xyz reasons..well that I could at least entertain the thought of listening to the philosophy behind it. Perhaps that's what he's been eluding too all along...hence the other thread.
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>You're not understanding because you're not recognizing the two ways creation can be used: rightly and wrongly, as per the other thread.
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>Things exist in this world because men have invented them. Not because they are right. But because they pursue wrong ends, and put into place false ideas, philosophies, policies, and teachings, other men fall into the trap, get caught up in that whirlwind.
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>The only way out is as is written in the other thread. Read it, ponder it, seek to understand it, and you will.
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>Love you, Victor. :-)
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>PS - I was under the impression we had resolved to cease discussion of that thread, not the subject.

The discussion of that thread and the subject are the same thing buddy :)