So when someone is actively losing their rights you feel the need to go out of your way to say you're unsympathetic. What did you /intend/ to convey with this? You support them, but at this dark moment, you felt the need to kick their shins also?

That you're unsympathetic. It's not a hard concept to grasp.

Sympathy(n): A feeling of pity or sorrow for the distress of another; commiseration. synonym: pity

There are limits to what people can concern themselves with, whatever the nature of that concern may be - both good and bad - by virtue of the shear magnitude of what's going on in the world and our limited ability to perceive all of it in the first place.

In the same vein that we must pick our battles, we must also pick what we give a fuck about, and some shit frankly, even if objectively wrong, just doesn't rate. An important point of order is that it's not a binary thing, but a spectrum. It's not that there's ZERO sympathy, but that there's not enough to critically cross that threshold of giving a fuck given all the other shit they may be concerning themselves with in that moment. Additionally, when a person does not give (enough of) a fuck about a given thing one moment, it may not hold true in another moment.

It'd be nice if I had the time and energy to address every injustice in the world, but that's not physically possible.

> What did you /intend/ to convey with this?

Simple. That you understand that what is happening is not right, but that you personally don't have the fucks/time/energy to give regardless.

I initially downvoted you, but on second thought I’m actually a bit sympathetic to your argument. We see a similar pattern happening elsewhere. E.g. US citizens being round up by paramilitary forces and shuttled without due process to places which can almost be described as concentration camps. All for the stated crime of maybe entering the country improperly. The argument goes that they do not deserve anything else because they are ”illegals”.

Doing one bad thing does not necessarily justify other bad things done to you.

That said, I don’t like this cheating-enabling software either and think the world would be a better place without it.

There's no inconsistency in holding both of these positions:

- the original software is clearly unethical, and I bear no goodwill toward its developer

- I support the consistent enforcement of the GPL

In a case like this, I think it's natural to state both points. If we only focus on the second, we may be contributing to a groundswell of support for the original project/developer. That's distasteful when we only want to narrowly support their right to have their licensing terms respected.