Comments on: Would Jesus use “pirated” software?

By: editor

editor — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:32:59 +0000

I obviously agree with Brian, and would say that slavery has always been immoral, even when it was a “legal right”. Maybe someday we’ll discover that charging money for food is immoral, but currently I’m not persuaded. I like to think 200 years ago I would have rejected slavery, but a lot of “good” people thought it was a respectable thing to do. So I gotta be rational, it took some pretty revolutionary people to buck that system. It’s hard to be convinced I would have had such conviction. I’d hope so, but… let’s be real.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:49:54 +0000

Times do change, and things become acceptable or not acceptable, but the morality of the issue does not change. Something being acceptable or not does not make it moral or immoral. And the fact that someone is a “good person” does not make their act moral, even if that act is socially acceptable in that culture at that time. They may not even realize or believe they are acting immorally. However, this has no bearing on the actual morality of the issue.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:10:17 +0000

Didn’t we all used to buy blank tapes and make mixes of everyone else’s music? I agree that if it wasn’t wrong then, why is it now?
But regarding the issue of matters of morality changing, I’m not disagreeing, but I do wonder if times change this, as slavery was acceptable at one point in time, and there were probably slave owners that were good people and took good care of their slaves. So where does that leave them?