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What is being done in space is no different than IRL. the only exception here is MA gave it a legal status. It is somewhat akin to some barbarian place on earth where there are no laws... but in a civil society it's always a crime.
And piracy is a criminal behavior
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Infinity01 I think where you went wrong here is when tried to apply real life laws to in game behaviors.
You can't call someone a criminal or say they have criminal behaviors when they haven't committed or tried to commit a crime. You said it yourself "MA gave it a legal status" therefore in EU piracy is looting someone but in EU piracy is not a crime.
If you want to bring RL morality and laws into how you play the game that's fine but you can only apply them to yourself. You can't hold everyone else to those standards not because they might have different standards than you but because it just doesn't work.
MA created this virtual universe and they don't allow anyone to do anything that they don't want them to do. If you want to put even more restrictions on your game play then MA requires you to then that's you making your own version of the game. Others may choose to play the game with only the restrictions that MA put forth and they are not criminals for it they are actually just following the rules.
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