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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
Huh?
Trump didn’t “do” anything to the “ailing person with no money.”
Trump didn’t make the donors give money. He didn’t hand them a laptop and hold a gun to their head and tell them to hit the donate button.
The donors voluntarily decided on their own to give.
That they failed to read through the fine print, or double check what they were donating and doing, or look carefully at the website isn’t Trump’s fault.
It is the fault of the idiot that decided to donate.
And, honestly, it is rather fitting for them. They fail to do the due diligence, on both the candidate and their website and on the donation itself, and get burned as a result. Oh well.
Besides, don’t a lot of Trump voters think that there should be less government regulation? Now they get to experience what that really means.
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Are you pretty much saying that deceit is always ok? That there's nothing wrong with it, ever? That's it's always the fault of the person who got conned for failing to do due diligence? That nothing can ever be considered fraud as long as "it's in the fine print"?
If there's some nuance I'm missing here, please clarify it for me.
I'd like to think that life is not simply a hoodwinking competition. Sadly, in a lot of ways it is, but we have to resist the temptation of letting our society slide completely in that direction.