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Ethical / Moral Muddy Waters
Do you ever find yourself in situations where you make decisions regarding moral or ethical dilemmas that are unusual and creative?
My most recent example, that I hope is a legitimate creative solution to a dilemma, is as follows;
I recently became interested in revisiting a series of books I enjoyed as a child / young teen. I discovered that after I stopped reading the series quite a few more books in the series were produced but all have been out of print for a decade or more.
I started searching for used copies online at Amazon, Ebay, etc. In the past few weeks I have purchased around 10 of the books in varying conditions.
Before I started all of this my first stop had been the Kindle ebook store to see if perhaps these out of print books were available as ebooks since that is a simple process that many publishers are doing with out of print books (doesn't cost them hardly anything). Alas this series was not available as ebooks.
Just for grins I did a google search for the title of this series with "ebook" behind it. I discovered quite a few torrent sites where people illegaly download music,movies, etc had them listed. I avoid those sites like the plague but kept on looking.
I ran across a site that only deals with books and only a few authors. It had this series of books as free downloads in the mobi file format which kindle readers can use.
I don't want to defraud a publisher or author of compensation so my solution was that I downloaded the ebook copies of all of the books in the series but will continue to pursue purchasing hard copies of all of them. I feel that this way I have legitmately purchased each book and the ebook edition is just a convenient format to read them in. Much like buying CD's then transferring them to your mp3 player to listen to them.
What do you think? Does my rationale of purchasing used copies of all of the books make my download of the ebook versions somebody put online moral?
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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