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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by syshum on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @06:54AM (#24351939)
So do you derive your ethics from legality, i.e to you believe that if something is legal it is automatically ethical, and if something is illegal that is automatically unethical?

For example I find Loot Boxes to be a highly predatory and unethical way of monetization in gaming yet they are legal, I also find it completely ethical for a person to grow a certain plant in their home garden but it is illegal...

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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by chii on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:33AM (#24353653)
> So do you derive your ethics from legality

yes, in some sense. when they differ, i would choose to make (or lobby for) what is unethical also illegal.

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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by syshum on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:02AM (#24353929)
Wow, that is very authoritarian political view. I hope you do not have much success in making things your dislike illegal
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Re:Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising con... by chii on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:21AM (#24354101)
> in making things your dislike illegal

dislike is very different from unethical.

Dislike is my taste - other people could have different tastes.

Unethical is defined by me as actions that "if everybody did it, society would collapse".

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