Currently Listening to: my conscience throwing a fit.

URRRGGHHH!!! I hate getting myself into situations like this! A few months back, I took a unit on copyright law in a class. It really opened my eyes to the precise number of ways one can violate these sorts of laws. Since then, everything I seem to enjoy is taking on a sort of illegality, and sometimes immorality, in my eyes. My former rom collection is no more. They had to go, the arguments against made too much sense for me to ignore. Next, it was many mods to a game I enjoy. I'm a fan of a certain space combat flight simulator whose source code was released to the public about seven years back. Since then, a community I am associated with has made mods for it that included graphics updates, which I still see no problem with, or new models or spacecraft for it. Anyway, some of these included total conversions that created mods based on popular universes like Wing Commander or Babylon 5. Because of my interpretations of the laws of the land, even though they were unique things in their own right and were not being sold for profit, I could no longer enjoy them with a clear head, or at all. So they're gone too. And now it has come to this. I took pictures of the models of spacecraft, B5, WC, you name it, that people had constructed, and started my own private little gallery. Now from an ethical standpoint, I may have to ditch even those pictures. How might they be any different than owning a micro machine of one, for instance? How do I know it's not against the law as well?

I've gone too far, I know I have, but I cannot ignore these so-called voices in my head calling me a thief once more. I've already talked to a few people about this. It hasn't gone away. I need to resolve this soon, or it's going to hunt me down indefinitely. Ugh, did not have that good a day.

In lighter news, though, I'm 8 pages into my thesis/master's paper and spoke at a symposium on Friday. Go me.