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DoTheRightThing Donating Member (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 06:27 PM
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30. You lied to them for personal advantage.
Edited on Tue May-02-06 06:31 PM by DoTheRightThing
We can't condemn it in others when we so easily dismiss it in ourselves. That others lie and get away with it does not make us more moral when we do it, too--we have merely sunk to their, unprincipled, level.

You don't need to ask US if it's wrong. That you asked at all means you KNOW it is and don't feel real great about what you've done. That's good--it means you have a conscience that actually is based upon something.

Our actions HAVE to be more than a knee-jerk based on what someone else does. If you REALLY wish to 'get even' with big corporations, do it the right way: Stay moral, educate yourself, and start your own company, or write your own business philosophy you can market, wherein businesses will act the way they are supposed to.

Stealing from a company puts NOTHING good in the world--it's just the easiest, most self-serving way you tried to make what you did noble.

It wasn't.
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  -Is it ok to scam big Coporations? William769  May-02-06 04:54 PM   #0 
  - They did it willingly.. Be proud.. It also shows how much  SoCalDem   May-02-06 04:57 PM   #1 
  - Exactly  Warpy   May-02-06 05:07 PM   #23 
  - The day Rupert Murdoch bought DirecTV  Dr.Phool   May-02-06 05:21 PM   #27 
  - NO. You're hired!  Sequoia   May-02-06 04:57 PM   #2 
  - hell no, it's your duty. (shades of Abbie Hoffman)  cryingshame   May-02-06 04:57 PM   #3 
  - Only if doing it bothers you.  porphyrian   May-02-06 04:57 PM   #4 
  - You have a very good point there.  William769   May-02-06 05:00 PM   #9 
  - Do you feel guilty?  quantessd   May-02-06 04:58 PM   #5 
  - OOPS!  William769   May-02-06 05:01 PM   #12 
  - Every good con depends upon the GREED of the "mark".  dicksteele   May-02-06 04:59 PM   #6 
  - It's NOT a SCAM if the company is genuinely making the offers  MADem   May-02-06 04:59 PM   #7 
  - OOOPS I meant what you did was OK by me  Carni   May-02-06 05:00 PM   #8 
  - I've done that myself a time or two and one time....  DaveTheWave   May-02-06 05:01 PM   #10 
  - Not at all!  NanceGreggs   May-02-06 05:01 PM   #11 
  - If you twisted their arms and beat them over the head with a stick  Robbien   May-02-06 05:01 PM   #13 
  - Odds are, they were scamming you.  ComerPerro   May-02-06 05:01 PM   #14 
  - That is probably true.  William769   May-02-06 05:04 PM   #17 
  - It's fair, I'd say  Selatius   May-02-06 05:02 PM   #15 
  - it occurs to me that hardly anyone here will say you were in the wrong  ComerPerro   May-02-06 05:02 PM   #16 
  - Nothing. You're not stealing. You just haggled.  Atman   May-02-06 05:04 PM   #18 
  - Thanks, I like that word better "haggled".  William769   May-02-06 05:05 PM   #20 
  - Try THIS when making hotel reservations:  MercutioATC   May-02-06 05:05 PM   #19 
  - No, it wasn't wrong. It was smart consumerism. Buyer beware.  Miss Chybil   May-02-06 05:06 PM   #21 
  - LOL!  William769   May-02-06 05:08 PM   #24 
     - You forgot the R!!!! LOL!  Miss Chybil   May-02-06 05:20 PM   #26 
  - That's not a scam  Zebedeo   May-02-06 05:06 PM   #22 
  - Thats not scamming. Thats negotiating  Freedom_Aflaim   May-02-06 05:17 PM   #25 
  - Who scams who?  sweetheart   May-02-06 05:26 PM   #28 
  - No... the thing that you did wrong was...  iamahaingttta   May-02-06 05:44 PM   #29 
  - You lied to them for personal advantage.  DoTheRightThing   May-02-06 06:27 PM   #30 
 

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