Quote Originally Posted by make it legal
i mean, i never have enough money or time to buy cds so usually i download music. and about the stealing weed think, if my dad had several pounds of weed just lying around i would defenitly take some.
That's another related point I wanted to get to in my original post. It seems almost justifiable to take a small part of a whole rather than to take the whole thing. What is it about human nature that condones stealing a little but not stealing a lot? Is it because we know it is intrinsically wrong, so a little bit of wrong can't do too much damage?

The same pretty much applies for stealing music. There are millions (or billions) of copies of any given song available to the public, so stealing one at any point in time seems pretty harmless to the profits of the artist/record company. They will barely even notice. That's true, but when millions of people have the same attitude, it is quite noticeable. Is a small wrong acceptable?