No sympathy here
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| Author | Content |
|---|---|
| Khamul Apr 05, 2012 4:28 PM EDT |
If he had to steal money like this, why couldn't he do it from someone more deserving, like the RIAA or MPAA? Or break into CIA servers and disseminate their secrets? NASA's the one US government agency that actually does mostly good work. |
| dinotrac Apr 07, 2012 9:23 AM EDT |
Gosh. What an ethical outlook: Shame on you for stealing from people I like. Thieves are thieves. They steal for their own purposes and they steal where they can. |
| tuxchick Apr 07, 2012 12:29 PM EDT |
I'm with Khamul. If you're going to be a thief then steal from other thieves, plz. |
| Khamul Apr 08, 2012 7:27 PM EDT |
@dinotrac: You like the RIAA? The people who steal from the artists and con them into evil contracts, leaving most of them penniless even after having #1 hits? |
| dinotrac Apr 08, 2012 8:32 PM EDT |
@khamul -- You misread what I wrote, but that's my fault. It would have been more clear had I used quote marks to make clear that I was attributing the sentiment to you, ie -- "Shame you for stealing from people I like." Thieves are thieves, even when they're stealing from the bad guys. |
| Khamul Apr 08, 2012 10:36 PM EDT |
oh, sorry about that. I'm not saying I like thieves or anything, just that some thieves are worse than others; it's not all black-and-white. To me, someone who steals bread to eat isn't really bad at all, unlike someone who steals from millions out of pure greed. Between those two extremes, while I don't condone thievery, I'm not going to get very angry about someone who steals from another thief, especially when that thief operates at a much larger scale, defrauding countless people out of huge sums of money; it just seems like a good instance of karma to me. |
| dinotrac Apr 08, 2012 11:01 PM EDT |
@khamul -- Had he stolen from RIAA (which he didn't), I certainly would have smiled, said "Couldn't happen to a more deserving crew" and condemned the thief. After all, his next target could be, well, NASA. |
| Bob_Robertson Apr 09, 2012 3:53 PM EDT |
Funded by theft, gets robbed. Crocodile tears. |
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