This Thursday Danelle and I head off to Bangkok for 7 days minus the kids who will be staying with my parents. I haven’t actually given the trip any thought yet, but todayas I was out walking I began to think and realised that in a few days time we will be faced with an interesting moral question.

Many parts of Asia are places where you can buy pirated clothes, watches, CD’s, DVDs etc etc.

It seems pretty common practice around people I know to come home with a few latest release movies, and some ‘brand name’ clothing. 8 years ago when we were in Manila, I stocked up on t shirts and watches too.

I would now see this as wrong. (Its not that it wasn’t wrong before – its just that I chose to ignore it as an act of stealing.)

I had a friend say to me recently that if it weren’t for the trade in pirated stuff many of the Indo’s and Asian market traders would go hungry. They need us to buy their stuff to keep them alive. So I am told…

What do you think?

Buy pirated stuff so that a struggling family can eat, or choose not to because morally it is stealing. Now I don’t know for sure if people will starve without us buying their stuff, but for the sake of the exercise lets just say they will…

Does that change things?

Can big brand name companies afford to lose a few bucks to support developing world poverty?

What would you do?…