How Logan Paul Scammed People Out of Millions

Re:How Logan Paul Scammed People Out of Millions by brookst on Sunday December 18, 2022 @12:39PM (#34040074)

If you want to see it that way, doesn’t that mean “maybe it’s better” if fraudsters accumulate wealth with impunity?

Perhaps we should incentivize crime and fraud, since the victims are by definition less fit, and the attackers are by definition more fit?

I am not sure I care for this philosophy. It is timely though, I’ll give you that.

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Re:How Logan Paul Scammed People Out of Millions by JumpCrisscross on Sunday December 18, 2022 @12:43PM (#34040110)

> doesn’t that mean “maybe it’s better” if fraudsters accumulate wealth with impunity?

It’s an argument against using public resources to pursue him. The victims could sue him for money damages, and in the process arrange the facts such that a prosecutor can jump off them versus launching an independent probe.

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Re:How Logan Paul Scammed People Out of Millions by ww-picard-do on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:58PM (#34043274)

So, justice should be a privilege only to those who can afford lawyers?

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Re:How Logan Paul Scammed People Out of Millions by MomoXenosaga on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:31AM (#34052435)

The resources of the justice system are despairingly finite I assure you. People get away with worse crimes than financial scams.

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Re:How Logan Paul Scammed People Out of Millions by brookst on Monday December 19, 2022 @10:25AM (#34053132)

Is anyone prosecuted for crimes less bad than these financial crimes? That seems like a better test than whether anyone gets away with worse.

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Re:How Logan Paul Scammed People Out of Millions by CydeWeys on Sunday December 18, 2022 @10:24PM (#34048026)

So who becomes the arbiter of which victims are "worthwhile" to try to seek justice for and which get thrown to the wolves? Do you think going down this path is likely to end up in a good place?

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