Word: moralisms
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...There’s a kind of glib little answer about why Creative Commons is good for me: It’s not just because I have moral belief in sharing, it’s because I think that giving away books sells books. The biggest problem that I have as an artist isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity...
...Developing Nations license, there’s a moral question about copyright in the developing world. Presently, developing nations are being arm-twisted into adopting copyright systems that were developed by and for developed nations. International agreements like the WIPO [World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty] of 1996, which is now being incorporated into a lot of the U.S. free-trade agreements, are a kind of information feudalism...
...enough of it, really. Fortunately, they never get their wish because the good guys are always right there to maim, torture and kill the bad guys—and anybody else who happens to be in the way—in graphic and brutal fashion. Extreme violence and moral simplicity is, of course, a hallmark of the action and crime genres. Nobody goes to see a movie like this expecting a deep dissection of the implications of violence on society, or even necessarily a shred of realism. It is, however, a reasonable expectation that if it?...
...Guangzhou) lest too many foreigners should disturb the tranquility of Chinese life. But the British, like everyone else, were dazzled by the prospect of a limitless Chinese market, if only they could get there; so they wanted more ports opened to trade. Furthermore, free trade was fast becoming a moral imperative in Britain. A dozen years later, the chief British official in China, Sir John Bowring, coined the dictum: “Free trade is Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is free trade.”More earnings from trade were also needed to pay for growing quantities of that...
...Prudence is the governing virtue of moral life,” Hehir said. “It is an exercise of prudence, not of self-censorship...