Re:A profound apology
by bogomipz on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @11:58PM
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So being a successful human being is gauged solely on the size of one's bank account?
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Re:A profound apology
by gingerbread-man on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @01:18AM
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No, but saving thousands (millions?) of lives through philanthropy goes a long way towards making up for being kind-of-a-dick-sometimes.
So its OK to act crappy now as long as you do something philanthropic later with the money you made while treating people badly? What is that called humanity arbitrage?
I don't think that basic human decency is something you should keep in a ledger to run credit and debits against.
Re:A profound apology
by michaelmrose on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @01:38AM
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If you got rich wholly or partly through wrong doing I don't understand how you can assign them any of the credit for giving some of it away.
Imagine if I mugged you for $100 and gave $20 to the red cross?
Terrible strawman. Travis didn't mug anyone.
The driver in the video claims otherwise.