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THE BIGGER PICTURE: A COMMENTARY ON THE FORCEHIMES–KARJIKER DEBATE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2019
Abstract
Forcehimes poses a parity between libraries and downloading books online and concludes that the im/permissibility of one of them entails the im/permissibility of the other and vice versa. Karjiker rejects this parity, arguing that the magnitudes of these two are vastly different and while libraries do not lead to a considerable market failure, downloading ebooks does. In this article, I try to clarify some points, show a kind of parochialism in Karjiker's arguments, propose a thought experiment to neutralize the magnitude problem, and justify Forcehimes’ main idea.
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1 I proposed the first version of this thought experiment in a paper (in Persian) in the Network for Public Policy Studies (NPPS): http://npps.ir/ArticlePreview.aspx?id=111810.