I don't know about you, but I spend more time on a computer than I do eating.

I do creative work on a computer, communicate with other people on a computer,
devote part of my dwelling to computers, talk about them -- using a computer
is part of daily life.  Part of human life.  And something that's part of
human life is something that's a reasonable area to have ethical beliefs
about, just like eating is.

So don't tell me to shut up, to make my computer, and the software on it, an
ethics-free zone, just because I might choose not to accept something like a
fair-use-violating DRM system, spyware, or a one-sided proprietary EULA.  What
I choose to feed my head is just as valid an area to have ethical concerns
about as what I feed my belly.

"I wish these food ethics people would keep their PERSONAL FANATICISM out of
food!  Food is a BIG BUSINESS and it's TOO IMPORTANT to put RELIGIOUS FLAMING
ahead of ROI!  So shut up and eat your sharecropper-grown transgenic
human/swine bone marrow patty with cheese in whisky sauce!"

No thanks.  As new technologies come along, human beliefs about right and
wrong have to grow along with them.  Disagree with me about what the proper
moral lines are, but as long as I'm a social human being I'm going to have
some moral lines, somewhere.

		-- Don Marti