Are we actually turning this thread into a .... measuring contest over who parents their kids better? Honestly....
Bottom line is this: if you think clones are "unethical", that's cool, don't buy one. If you think they're okay, but them to your hearts content. Why does what other people prefer seem to have such an emotional impact on people? Is that really where our society is now, where other people's personal decisions, that have little to no impact on us at all, get people so emotionally invested?
Not exactly, the idea started out as a comment that our actions be them ethical or not effect our the kids we rear up to be adults.
Most tell kids not to copy answers off another students work, because it is not ethical.
But when your actions are the opposite, you in fact lose credibility and send a message that it is in fact okay to do exactly what you said not to do.
People like to blab on and on about how its not against the law to own or even make clones, that's all fine and good; the average person who does not go to school to study law really has no concept of the vast quantities of laws and how those laws interact with each other, or have any real experience in court to see how those laws are brought to use and interpreted by the courts.
What most all of us have is the ethical background our parents teach us or those bits of common knowledge we gather as we age.
In effect, laws are what get enforced when we violate them, but we tend to follow our ethics. Historically the courts do not accept ignorance of the law as a defense, yet only a very small portion of our society graduates from law school. So again, we operate on ethics.
It is unethical to copy another's work, it is equally unethical to support efforts to copy another's work.
In many cases it is also illegal to copy another's work, and the details of that are detailed out in many hundreds of laws around the world.
We all know that clones that come from countries such as China aren't likely going to cease existing or being created.
That some people are just fed up with it enough to take action is maybe just a first step in a greater effort against theft of designs in our industry.
Being pro authentic does not mean I'm wealthy, I'm certainly not rich and like many I live paycheck to paycheck, I have nice things, just not a whole lot of things.
I can't stop anyone from being pro clone, but I can say that being pro-authentic is an absolute pleasure. Its an ideology that helped me buy my first house at 22 and ten years later my second.
That's all really.
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