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Regarding abortion and toeiva and lots more, I agree that secular society is getting worse. But that is them, not us. And there was no Klal Yisrael, the Am Kadosh, in the Dor HaMabul. Further, lihavdil, the Catholics are still very much against abortion and even forced the President to backtrack on a contraception bill.
But most importantly, **we** still know it’s wrong, so I still think your OP should have been worded very differently. And as this disaster of “gay marriage”, CH”V, unfolds over the next two decades or so, even many goyim will realize what a travesty this is, particularly because the children in these homes will have been deprived a healthy normal childhood.
Regarding copying music, I don’t know where you get this idea that “people copy cd’s so much” and that therefore “the Jewish music industry is struggling mightily and may fold altogether.”
Of the millions of Jews who consume this music, how many do you know? And do you have access to Aderet’s books that you are so sure that CD copying has that effect, that they can’t profit from a CD?
(My understanding is that it so happens that the CDs are really a marketing expense to get the singer to be “known” so they can be invited to perform at concerts, where the real money in that industry is. That doesn’t mean people should copy, but I strongly disagree that many people do so.)
You’re really accusing a large portion of Klal Yisrael of going against halacha, and you really have absolutely no idea if you are right because you don’t know that many people. So I think that assertion, in particular, is uncalled for and should be retracted.
I assume you meant well in trying to remind people that copying CDs takes away money from the producers, et al. But baselessly accusing “so many people” is not the right way to do that.