• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It is completely ethical to remove the funding power from those who would cause others to suffer.

    Just sayin, you have options.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, but you’re not really conning the higher-ups, you’re conning the grannies who are going to church and giving away their social security money. And they really don’t deserve to be conned even if it would be easy to con them.

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                  10 months ago

                  My intention wasn’t to call you an idiot (which me misusing that Latin phrase would make ME the idiot lol), it was to point out the “If I don’t do it someone else will” moral justification / fallacy that a lot of people, such as drug dealers for example, use to skirt the moral responsibility of their actions.