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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I understand why, and how many people make that rationalization. The fact that so many people are dishonest is exactly why it's not a road to ruin. That's why insurance exists, why companies create allowances for doubtful accounts, why companies hire loss prevention specialists, and actually ultimately why companies act like faceless profit earning corporations. They are only doing to people as people would do to them in return. I just don't like people pretending that because they don't steal from their direct neighbor, but have no problems stealing from a faceless stranger (Or group of millions of strangers), that somehow in the big scheme of things their actions are just.
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I can agree with that, but I think we all individually determine what we consider 'just'. But that's opening up a whole different issue.
I do find it interesting the way that people rationalize things though, even with this seemingly small issue there are a lot of ways to explain the behavior.