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A comment on Europe Announces Bailout For Cyprus — Bank Depositors Get Instant 10% Tax. Parent comment

Re:Europe Announces Bailout For Cyprus — Bank Depositors Get... by ameister14 on Sunday March 17, 2013 @12:21PM (#5389724)
It's not about moral equivalence, it's about likelihood of action.

He's saying because the banks are structured a certain way, the government behaves differently than they would otherwise. Namely that the government feels it has a right to the goods/property of the citizenry that they did not have before. I disagree, because governments did things like this without the banks.

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Re:Europe Announces Bailout For Cyprus — Bank Depositors Get... by burntsushi on Monday March 18, 2013 @02:58PM (#5396356)
> It's not about moral equivalence, it's about likelihood of action.

It's about both. The top parent can't make this statement

> They would have never gone to a farmer and taken 10% of their grain.

without an assumption of moral equivalence.

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