Yup, I really didn’t look at it that way.
Maybe I’m bent because it’s no food off my plate, or maybe I naturally connect to the people whose day in the zone was made a little better by his crime than those who were outraged.
It must be that I’m just wired wrong, because although you made a conclusive argument, I just can’t connect to your pain. I keep visualizing young men in Afghanistan whose only positive event of a day in hell was a larcenous old vet that gave them a ninety minute escape out of it.
You’re 100% right, he has absolutely no legal defense at all, not one leg in court he could stand on. And he was aware of the legal ramifications of his actions, which would come down hard on him at his sentencing.
I’m not mad at him, not really. Because his heart is in the right place.
My beef is, our 92 year old vet is smart enough to figure out the technology to make dupes. Good for him. That means he’s on the ball enough to go about this legitimately — ASK the studios for copies of films. My guess is they would be glad to donate DVDs to the troops. Fantastic publicity, and believe it or not, there are patriots in Hollywood.