Quote from: jpinkman on August 02, 2012, 03:58 pmQuote from: anarcho47 on July 25, 2012, 04:34 amNow, I'd like you to explain your subjective interpretation of "fair" in the instance of Microsoft. What would you, wise benevolent overlord of the morality of the planet earth, decree upon those of us who wish to serve our customers by giving them something they are currently paying for for nothing, while simultaneously freeing up billions of tied-up capital, human intellect and labour, and scarce resources to be put to use in a better consumer-serving capacity. Please, bestow your wisdom upon us.Honestly, I don't believe you have the capacity to understand fairness. I wasted a lot of effort trying to explain and illustrate why MS's practices would be considered unfair. I even tried to simplify things using an analogy you might be better able to understand and relate to by using your weed growing business. If you don't understand the concept of fairness by now, it's obviously too nuanced of a concept for you, and I'm certainly not going to be able to explain it to you.Truly the God from on-high. Your high-brow benevolence, your wisdom, your great ability to bestow righteousness upon us lowly serfs is too far beyond my intellectual faculties and moral foundations. I understand. I will not try to ask you to bestow your wisdom on us further, your worship, as you clearly have important things to do regarding the cosmos and such. I'd be sorry to leave without first noticing that you have not actually pointed out anything concrete in your post(s), only pulled from the sludge of your post-modern understanding of "fairness" and morality and attempted to see if it links with a consensus on here. I'll quickly breeze over the fact that this is the type of action a child in a playground would perform. I won't even bother to spend a lot of time on the substance-less arrogance and complete lack of direction of your posts, since they are not rooted in any consistent philosophy and instead appear to be based on some bits and pieces of shit you read around the internet and managed to pack them into your existing worldview, so that's just peachy. In other words, you just came on here to suck your own dick in front of everyone, which is pretty creepy shit.I don't need analogies from whatever muck you are going to attempt to pull them from, because they are likely completely off-base (simply in-line with your previous posts, is what I'm saying). You were completely wrong the first time you tried, since you have no consistent philosophy that you can base your assertion on (it's an inherent double standard), and I would be willing to bet you would be completely wrong in any further attempts, or use the wrong type of analogy..Now let me finish waving my incense at your bronze likeness (or gold, if that's what you prefer, although I'm going to have to save up for a while), so I can go off and continue working on the paperwork for my "non-weed" business that generates about 15x the annual sales of everything I've sold on the silk road in the last 14 months. And you can keep pondering what you must teach me about business, economics, morality, and human interaction. I would have thought a god would have come up with something at least a little clever, by now.