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Anti-Piracy Lessons Enter the School Curriculum: Are You a Thief? (ift.tt)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (4 children)

“In the real world, we learn to control desire, postpone needs, and resist temptation. This lesson also applies to the digital world. Stealing is wrong and punishable,” it adds.

Yeah these chumps are total tools that'll just boost piracy even more. How do you fail this hard at talking to kids? If you tell a teen to "postpone needs," you don't deserve to be around teens.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That is a reminder of the christian morals engrained in our culture and thus education system

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Brief reminder that most people on the planet aren't American

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Brief reminder that most people on the planet aren’t American

So what? Catholicism and Protestantism is ingrained in big parts of europe

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

His use of "our culture" screams American. Sure other countries have SOME religious folk. USA is a warzone in 2023

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The English speaking world shares many cultural similarities, namely Christianity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

"Sharing" and being a solid 45% of voter base is totally different imo.

The USA is a theocracy. Christofascism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Most of the governments on Earth (including all Scandinavian countries) are puppet states dominated by the USA.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't scandanavia mainly atheist?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The culture is still shaped by Lutheranism

[–] samus12345 2 points 2 years ago

Every day they stray further from Odin.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

“In the real world, we learn to control desire, postpone needs, and resist temptation. This lesson also applies to the digital world. Stealing is wrong and punishable,”

"None of this, of course, need apply to the ruling class, who lives entirely to sprint ever faster on the hedonic treadmill, demand the planet burn faster for profit, and indulge every possible temptation no matter how cruel or inhuman." lord-bezos-amused

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I definitely resolved to try LSD after a D.A.R.E. lecture in 5th grade

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Next up: adblockers make baby Jesus cry