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Originally Posted by Brannigans Law
you cant possibly be serious? you dont see a difference between making an unethical return to walmart and lying about where you bought it and smashing innto someones car and stealing their deck? i like your posts pylon i really do, but you really need to dial down the intensity here. your position isn't reasonable or logical. context is important and yes, shades of gray exist here.
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Just because two actions sit on opposite ends of a spectrum or scale of ethical/moral wrongdoings doesn't make either action okay.
And yes I did some fraudulent things as teenager - both to businesses and to people, but I grew up and realized that while morality is a social construct; that social construct is a social agreement that everybody participates in.
Free riders, scammers, liars, thieves, cheats, conmen, and anybody who chooses to fraudulently work the system (no matter how trivial or how grave their actions) ultimately injures the privileges of everybody else in the system.
If I was an employer, I wouldn't hire any of you people making this argument because you have just displayed a willingness to defraud or deceive someone or something (or accept/condone such actions by others) just because it seems trivial enough to you on your own personal gray scale of ethics.