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Not everything that's permitted is compulsory. I mean, suppose you frequent a store with a penny tray and you decide, since it's ok to take one penny, why not take all of them? And if you get away with that, why not start cleaning out tip jars? Maybe you will get arrested, but maybe not. I feel like computers are training people that everything you are technically permitted to do is worth trying. I'm not even sure what the rules should be, but rather I feel like losing a common sense of unwritten rules is losing part of what it means (or used to mean) to be human.


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