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[Sky Shadow]

Yeah I can't believe some people would try and save money. It's f***ing ridiculous.

I do get the point, and I know d*r*j* phrased it kind of... pontifically... but joking aside though, surely there are both moral and amoral ways for us to save money. On a small scale, yesterday I ordered two pizzas, went down to the store to pick them up, left with them and it wasn't until I was halfway down the street that I realised that they hadn't asked me to pay for them. At that point, I could have kept walking and they'd continue to be none-the-wiser as I saved $14, or I could have done what I did and go back to the store and let them know the pizzas hadn't been paid for. (The pizza-people were kind of surprised that I went back and told them, actually.) Obviously that sort of thing and choosing to or not to exchange toys at a different store to the one you bought it from isn't the same scale as Nigerian bank scams, laundering money, burglary etc. Still, surely something that resembles scamming or pilfering is arguably unethical, regardless of how big or small the scale may be.

[blackie]

Obviously that sort of thing and choosing to or not to exchange toys at a different store to the one you bought it from isn't the same scale as Nigerian bank scams, laundering money, burglary etc. Still, surely something that resembles scamming or pilfering is arguably unethical, regardless of how big or small the scale may be.

that nigerian was scamming me????
he told me i was the cousin of the king and i had to pay a $1000 withdrawal fee for my inheritance..... :'(

[kaiden]

that nigerian was scamming me????
he told me i was the cousin of the king and i had to pay a $1000 withdrawal fee for my inheritance..... :'(

that same nigerian told me asians were originally from nigeria and that i was the next in line to be king! then he told me my fee was 100k because i was going to be a lot richer than the cousin of the current king...

[TheDirtyDigger]

... but joking aside though, surely there are both moral and amoral ways for us to save money.

Morality is purely subjective and what one person deems as moral righteousness should not be foisted upon anyone else.
An actively religious man with syphillis eating holes in his grey matter may see the slaughter of sexually active post-pubescent girls as morally righteous.

Closer to home however, one might believe giant, transnational corporations to be the personification for the true evils of the world and any chance to strike a blow, no matter how small, against them to be the righteous duty of the truly free.

[d*r*j*]

Morality is purely subjective and what one person deems as moral righteousness should not be foisted upon anyone else.

Are you suggesting that I was foisting my desire to keep a hobby like toy collecting pure, of morally corrupt behavior, upon you? I was simply and obviously stating that I only participate to a certain level because of my own beliefs and judgements.

Closer to home however, one might believe giant, transnational corporations to be the personification for the true evils of the world and any chance to strike a blow, no matter how small, against them to be the righteous duty of the truly free.

I guess it would give meaning to your thoughtless consumerism if you could dress it up in some kind of Robin Hood type romance?

[TheDirtyDigger]

Are you suggesting that I was foisting my desire to keep a hobby like toy collecting pure, of morally corrupt behavior, upon you?

Nah.

I guess it would give meaning to your thoughtless consumerism if you could dress it up in some kind of Robin Hood type romance?

Exactly.

[griffin]

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