this is weird logic. scams happen every minute of every day all over the globe, i do not advocate for more people to scam.
>It's an open secret, for example, that the AI companies trained their models on pirated textbooks.
yeah, and that was wrong.
>You can't pay your rent with ethics.
this is a sad sentence.
I don't disagree, but I'm talking about the real world that we inhabit, not the fictional idealized world we wistfully discuss in classrooms.
The world is a shitty place full of shitty people. Being an idealist is just asking to be taken advantage of.
you can live in the real world without stealing software from people and justifying it because they were born in the "wrong" country.
i have done it my entire life.
"two wrongs dont make a right" is a pretty simple rule to live by, even in the real world. perhaps unsurprisingly, it is also good for ones mental health.