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by jimhefferon 2290 days ago
Moral law?
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Morals are subjective.
And yet, we generally agree on some baseline human standards. Sure, maybe you can find examples of people who would think this is morally reasonable, but I would guess they are a pretty extreme minority.
The people involved in the negotiation, except for whoever leaked it, thought it was permissible by the baseline human standards.
They were wrong, though.
And people generally agree that HBO is within their rights to limit their programming to their subscriber base.