Re:Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz Calls for Jail Time fo...
by lkrubner on Saturday October 23, 2010 @02:58PM
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You write:
"Note the headline: Put Corporate Criminals in Jail
Keyword: crooks, not failures"
My friend, it is up to us (the public) to define what a criminal is. That's the whole point of this conversation. If you want to reason from the headline of the article then you are engaging in a bit of circular reasoning: the title of the article says these people are criminal, therefore the article must be correct, because criminals are bad.
I think you and I can agree that criminals are bad. The question is, what do we want to define as criminal behavior?
"Note the headline: Put Corporate Criminals in Jail Keyword: crooks, not failures"
My friend, it is up to us (the public) to define what a criminal is. That's the whole point of this conversation. If you want to reason from the headline of the article then you are engaging in a bit of circular reasoning: the title of the article says these people are criminal, therefore the article must be correct, because criminals are bad.
I think you and I can agree that criminals are bad. The question is, what do we want to define as criminal behavior?