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Re:A profound apology by bogomipz on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @11:58PM (#13761287)
So being a successful human being is gauged solely on the size of one's bank account?
Re:A profound apology by gingerbread-man on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @01:18AM (#13761664)
No, but saving thousands (millions?) of lives through philanthropy goes a long way towards making up for being kind-of-a-dick-sometimes.
Re:A profound apology by bogomipz on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @11:53AM (#13765442)
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 (#13761746)
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?

Re:A profound apology by vecter on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @02:32AM (#13762017)
Terrible strawman. Travis didn't mug anyone.
Re:A profound apology by nightski on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @11:00AM (#13764731)
The driver in the video claims otherwise.
Re:A profound apology by vecter on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @02:53PM (#13767615)
And his claim is ridiculous. Do you actually have a point to make?