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Re:Red Cross Wants Real Life Laws Enforced Within Virtual Wo... by kstenerud on Monday December 05, 2011 @02:57PM (#3316196)
Mr T is amazingly cool. He always strived to be a good role model, and tried very hard to show that you can be cool while living with morals, that it's a good idea to finish school and contribute to the society you live in. It sounds corny as hell when you say it, but he made it work. I'd buy him a beer any day.
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Re:Red Cross Wants Real Life Laws Enforced Within Virtual Wo... by hvs on Monday December 05, 2011 @03:58PM (#3316451)
He also stripped every tree out of his 7.5 acre yard and put up a stockade fence around it, much to his neighbors' chagrin.

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/30/us/genteel-chicago-suburb-...

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-12-02/news/031202032...

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Re:Red Cross Wants Real Life Laws Enforced Within Virtual Wo... by pyre on Monday December 05, 2011 @04:10PM (#3316500) 

  > In recent weeks, Mr. T, reportedly suffering from
  > allergies, has already cut down more than a hundred
  > of the oak trees on his English Tudor estate here,   
  > violating an unwritten code of esthetics in this
  > picturesque town along the shore of Lake Michigan.
So it's immoral to cut down a bunch of trees on your property that are causing you allergies? Sorry, but I don't equate home owner's association-type rules (an 'unwritten' ones at that) with morality.

This is just a bunch of rich people complaining about the height of 'first world problems.'

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Re:Red Cross Wants Real Life Laws Enforced Within Virtual Wo... by jasonlotito on Monday December 05, 2011 @04:43PM (#3316635)
Not sure where it mentions morality, but judging by the text you quoted, and your response, I'm assuming you misread esthetics as ethics. If not, just let me know. Just confused by your remark is all.
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Re:Red Cross Wants Real Life Laws Enforced Within Virtual Wo... by pyre on Monday December 05, 2011 @05:43PM (#3316881)
I didn't misread that. I was confused as to the response to

  Mr. T shows that you can be cool and have morals
with

  Mr. T cut down a bunch of trees and pissed off some
  prissy rich people back in 1987
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