Slipping off the edge

I've been thinking a lot lately about the way that kids can so easily become criminals in this digital age.

It seems to me that every generation faces more opportunities to commit crime based simply on the number of new laws and restrictions we create. What was once considered innocent tinkering becomes criminal activity over a small period of time.

Tonight, Stephen and I were babbling in my office about something or other related to a large space image of the world that I was moving around between systems. He had an epiphany and blurted out that he could put everything on his system onto his site.

Yipes!

I had a short explanation but we need to spend a lot of time talking about this issue. It's no where near clear even for me.

As a society with a large Judeo Christian influence, we teach our children to share and we expect them to learn how to do that. Those teachings pose a significant problem in a society which is still riding the bleeding edge of capitalism at a time where sharing has never been easier. Profit and loss decisions become codified without any real debate about what's good for both sides. There is a fine moral line that is rarely applied to decisions made on the behalf of the corporate (grown up?) side of our society.

Somehow, we need to get back to a balance between commerce and public representation.