[utbabya]

This is not thought experiment, it is straw man.

Here's my thought experiment, they told you studies shows that vaccination is safe, you point out there happened to be a case after injecting a person died. In some places people categorize it as FUD.

Just to be clear I don't have a side in this race, I haven't priated anything for a long time, don't find the need.

[bscphil]

Thought experiments don't need to be realistic when they are responses to deductive arguments. [1]

You can't use a thought experiment to argue that people should change their behavior because of a problem, as you're pointing out - and I'm not doing that. I'm not saying people should not pirate things because piracy is bad for game developers. I pirate things. I'm not making a statement about piracy.

ddevault is doing something rather specific: arguing that because intellectual property rights do not exist, anyone whose work is copied does not lose anything. This is an argument that is contradicted by a possible world in which someone loses something, even if you don't think it's our actual world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive_reasoning