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by TheMode 916 days ago
So if we encouraged people to make such terms to help with their end of month, looking at people would become immoral?

Pieces of paper/text shouldn't be able to dictate what is moral outside of common sense. The world I describe above would become a worse place for everybody.

Here, the problem is that the artist put a lot of time into making the song because there is the expectation of that term and the ability to extract money out of it. Without this expectation, none of it would feel immoral for either of both side.

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Nope, you keep forgetting the key ingredient; the "lookers" would need to agree to this arrangement in the first place. None of these things are foisted upon people without their consent, as you keep trying to claim. You agree to terms when you buy a copy of a work, both implicit and explicit, that forbit its further distribution.
It could be part of Meta ToS. Saying that all your friends are allowed to ask payment for eye contact. Hopefully you read it already.

Consent is a really hard thing to guarantee. You have already lost. There is no moral stance to have here, its all made up agreement.

Nope, it could not be part of Meta's ToS, and consent is not hard to guarantee, when you have a specific moment of transaction.

And you can claim I've "lost", but you have no justification for it.