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Re:Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy by jholman on Monday April 29, 2013 @04:36PM (#5628551)
>> It doesn't matter if there are 100 free riders for 1 customers, as long as you have enough customers. > It is, quite literally, the antithesis of Western society.

Can you explain this to me? It looks like trolling, but I'm trying to extend the benefit of the doubt.

What does "Western society" mean? I'm both curious what countries or cultures qualify as Western for this purpose, and also what aspects of those countries/cultures you see as being the essential ones.

How do you equate the "accepting some free riders as long as some people pay" idea with the antithesis of Western society? Are you claiming that the fundamental premise of "Western society" is "don't let anyone have anything without paying for it"?

What does "quite literally" mean in that sentence? Is there some non-literal sense that you wanted to disambiguate, or is just an intensifier?

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Re:Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy by corresation on Monday April 29, 2013 @05:30PM (#5628945)
It looks like trolling, but I'm trying to extend the benefit of the doubt.

What a wonderful way of completely deriding any meaningful discussion possible.

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