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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (12 children)

So someone who works at a grocery store is paid to help you load your groceries in the car, but you don't tip them. Does that mean they're allowed to take whatever groceries they already loaded back into the store?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (11 children)

No, because that's not what tips are for? But if you don't pay for the groceries, then yeah, they should be allowed to not give you the groceries, because that's how buying things works

But if you specifically agree to pay someone a certain amount of money to load your groceries in advance, then refuse to pay them, it's totally valid for them to not load your groceries, because you didn't pay for the service you bought

Jesus Christ on a bike

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (10 children)

So you're comparing things that have been paid for to things that haven't been paid for?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

This is why metaphors don't work. Files are not groceries, arguments that apply to one don't always apply to the other.

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