Same attitude - different world

Attitudes are changing. How often don't we here that phrase? But sometimes it's not the attitudes that change. Rather it's the reality that make a move and allows the attitudes to turn into behavior.

Two nights ago my oldest son (three years old) threw his Brazilian soccer ball from our balcony and it eventually stopped on the public lawn not far from our house. I could see it from the living room, it wasn't far, but when the night set it had slipped my mind.

When we woke up the day after the ball was gone.

It was really a nice ball, purchased in Rio de Janeiro. And even if I loved it more than my son did, we miss it. Damn those who stole it!!!

So. Who's to blame for this? Well, you shouldn't steal right!? But on the other hand, if something is obviously untouched on the public ground for more than 24 hours, isn't it okey to take it? I think most of you think I am the responsible one, who didn't fetch the ball in the first place. I changed the scene. Soccer balls used by children and their parents aren't free to just take. But if they are left and abandoned they are.

Which brings me to the most debated "attitude change" right now. The attitudes towards stealing music and movies. If the industry creates format and equipment that can be used to share and copy content. Haven't they then also kicked out the ball on the public lawn? And, if there is a ball on the lawn, that nobody seems to care about, year after year. Isn't it then OK to take it?

The attitudes haven't changed. Technology has. The industry changed the world - deal with it!

Comments

[Skogstorparn]

I couldn't agree more. Spot on!