That's the problem with us as humans right now. We can't understand one another. There can be soooo many factors as to why people pirate software. Some people may not have the means to buy software at all due to financial woes that may not be the persons fault and some people may see music as their only means of escape which could very well be possible. Something as superficial as money isn't gonna stop someone who wants to create music and when we idolize and talk about how amazing these pricey plugins are, The pirates are gonna go for what's deemed highly valuable. Like the saying goes, you get what you paid for so people are gonna hunt for the priciest stuff.
Pirating is never gonna stop and we're all gonna look at it in different ways, the best thing we can do is try to understand why some do it and why some don't do it, and try to work for a way to make everyone happy. All this self righteous talk as liquid wind put it, gets us nowhere. I try not to pirate but if I see something of interest, then I'll dabble with it and eventually pay for it when I get the dough. If you have money there's no reason to do it because you can just buy it, so it makes it really easy to not see the other side of things.