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I don't believe in literal karma but I do believe that people who live their lives disregarding others' rights and feelings burn so many bridges that yes, this activity can come back and bite them.
And that's what karma is, I wouldn't mess around with it.
It's interesting that the OP says it's okay and there are no moral issues here, and others are invoking morality and karma (which I think the latter is a fiction or superstition).
However, neither side is actually providing a reasoned argument for their opinion, and that would truly interest me. Is it that the promoters have no concern for any consequences of discovery? Have the nay-sayers actually thought about why they subscribe to their version of morality, or do they just accept their indoctrination? Seriously, how have you reached your considered opinions?
I see what you're saying, but in fairness, the OP only asked whether respondents would consider doing it, not whether they believed it was morally wrong or not. I think it's rather pointless to debate the morality of something like this. It would be like debating the morality of abortion. People feel how they feel--their opinions are based in large measure on emotion rather than logic. Given that, people's minds are rarely ever changed--if anything, debates usually only serve to make the participants angry and embittered.
I see what you're saying, but in fairness, the OP only asked whether respondents would consider doing it, not whether they believed it was morally wrong or not. I think it's rather pointless to debate the morality of something like this. It would be like debating the morality of abortion. People feel how they feel--their opinions are based in large measure on emotion rather than logic. Given that, people's minds are rarely ever changed--if anything, debates usually only serve to make the participants angry and embittered.
I'm asking my own question, but it does seem related to the topic. I agree that most people choose an opinion or "explanation" that confirms their existing emotional bias. However, I'm sure some people actually think through the issues to arrive at their opinion by some process of logic or reason. Whether their starting assumptions are correct is another issue, of course.
Done it and I don't regret it. I really don't give a rat's arse.
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Originally Posted by Pi64
I see what you're saying, but in fairness, the OP only asked whether respondents would consider doing it, not whether they believed it was morally wrong or not. I think it's rather pointless to debate the morality of something like this. It would be like debating the morality of abortion. People feel how they feel--their opinions are based in large measure on emotion rather than logic. Given that, people's minds are rarely ever changed--if anything, debates usually only serve to make the participants angry and embittered.
It's not like debating abortion because both sides of the discussion understand that the there is a potential to harm (and intent to harm really that gets people off), unlike abortion, but the one doing the harming does not care. And it's more than opinion in that arena but genetics/biochemistry and nurture since compassion has been found to be physiologically based And we tend to treat others how we have been treated/vice versa ad infinitum.
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