Maybe it's that to some people, earning something or creating something is more satisfying than stealing it, while to many other people it doesn't matter where it comes from. This is true in all walks of life. I never cheated on a test, but plenty of kids I knew did. Those people have no problem taking shortcuts because they don't understand the satisfaction of doing something right.

When a whole civilization falls victim to that mentality, we end up with zero responsibility and intellectual collapse.

Did you invent the alphabet? If not, then everything you've ever written or coded was theft.