Originally Posted by
Rob.Singer
Unsure where your theoretical flapping is coming from. I certainly see no experience supporting whatever it is you're saying.
Your Third World proclamation that no one steals food to feed their families out of necessity is a very poor guess on your part. I've been to every poor country on earth multiple times over. Not only do the poor who can't work for whatever reasons, steal food from street vendors daily to feed their children--they'll do that before accepting charity.
Someone like you, had you discovered the double up flaw, would NEVER have been able to keep quiet about it for any length of time. That requires discipline. And would you have been able to develop a strategy for using it effectively? I don't see that in you either. But don't worry--you're in the majority there.
Right vs. wrong.....that only means something to the individual. How much do you think it matters to me now that the money has been secured and no critics or any jealous law or legal parasites can do anything but shake a stick at me. And BTW, no liberal is smart enough to have been able to figure this thing out. That's something we should be in agreement on.
Rob, since you don’t know me you’re making a lot of assumptions about me that are incorrect. I’m sure I know more about poverty and third world countries than you’ll ever know. My brother has worked with refugees around the world for his whole life. He has lived in some of the poorest third world countries in the world for about 20 years. I’ve personally visited large refugee camps in Central America during the Reagan years, when we were trying to stop communism from spreading. I saw conditions in those refugee camps that were deplorable. It was hard to believe humans could live like that. You know what I never saw or heard about when I was in these refugee camps? Stealing? So I know much more than you could ever know about the poor and disadvantage around the world.
Are their poor people in the streets in third world counties stealing from people? Of course. Are they stealing because “their family is starving to death”? No. That was my point. Most of these street kids have no families, they are runaways. I’m not going to get into a big discussion of how these countries got into this situation. That’s a whole different debate.
My point is there are not families where the father or mother has to go out and steal “a loaf of beard so their family doesn’t starve to death”. This is the hypothetical situation that the liberals like to throw out there. They also use this example to justify people stealing in our country. It isn’t happening.
As far as you taking advantage of the double up bug, you have no idea what I would have done. I don’t either. But I do know I would have known it was wrong. Anybody with a conscience would know it’s wrong. That doesn’t mean I might not have tried to milk it like you did (if this wasn’t just a story you made up to gain recognition amoung your peers). But my inner conscience (moral compass if you like) would have still told me this was wrong. I definitely wouldn’t have bragged about it or let anybody know I did it. That’s like bragging about taking advantage of a bug in an ATM machine that spits out cash (and I know I’m not the first person who has made that point).
One last point. I doubt if you’ve been to “every poor country on earth multiple times over.” First, what defines a poor country? There are liberals that would call America poor since we still have people in our country they classify as poor. While I know you aren’t a liberal that statement was right out of the liberal’s playbook.