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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Attero Dominatus on March 05, 2008, 03:00:49 PM
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-05-08 01:25 PM
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If you could be Robin Hood, would you?
That is, if you could rob from the rich and give to the poor would you do it?
Is stealing from the wicked who have stolen from others morally wrong?
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muddleofpudd (643 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-05-08 01:27 PM
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1. It is morally wrong to steal.
End of discussion.
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-05-08 02:09 PM
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10. Even if you stole the profits from Exxon and fed, sheltered and clothed the poor?
Edited on Wed Mar-05-08 02:10 PM by sarcasmo
On edit: couldn't you call it Revenge?
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muddleofpudd (643 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-05-08 02:17 PM
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11. No. It's wrong.
Revenge only encourages violence and more suffering.
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alyce douglas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-05-08 01:28 PM
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3. haven't they stole from us to give to the rich.
Edited on Wed Mar-05-08 01:28 PM by alyce douglas
to answer your question, yes, I would do it.
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GloriaSmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-05-08 01:32 PM
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6. It would be fun to steal from insurance companies....
and give the money to the sick and uninsured. How about stealing from Haliburton and giving the money to the forgotten veterans?
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TooBigaTent (259 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-05-08 01:32 PM
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7. Anything done to those who have destroyed those "below" them in the social
structure is fair game. Even heroic.
Allowing them to keep their ill-gotten gains is morally wrong.
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muddleofpudd (643 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-05-08 01:34 PM
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8. It is wrong to steal
whether you are Halliburton or Eddie Punch-clock.
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silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-05-08 01:40 PM
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9. Maybe.
If I were absolutely sure that a rich man was rich because of "ill-gotten gains" (including off-shore accounts and investments in anti-human companies) I would not hesitate to rob him blind.
If we're talking about someone who earned his wealth through hard work, thrift, and/or personal ingenuity (especially eco-sustainable solutions), I'd never touch him.
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-05-08 02:21 PM
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13. No, I wouldn't. Stealing is wrong.
I'd tax the hell out of them and redistribute it. Many of the rich would think that was stealing, but it's perfectly legal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfectly_Legal
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asdjrocky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-05-08 02:29 PM
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16. In a New York minute.
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If I could get away with it, I'd be Robin Hood.
DUmb-farks just don't understand that Robin hood stole from the government (evil sheriff) who was over taxing the people and stealing their land, and gave back to the taxpayers.
Yeah, freedom! :cheersmate:
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alyce douglas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-05-08 01:28 PM
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3. haven't they stole from us to give to the rich.
Edited on Wed Mar-05-08 01:28 PM by alyce douglas
to answer your question, yes, I would do it.
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What, exactly, Alyce, have they stolen from you to give to the rich?
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And that my friends is why I am armed.
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What, exactly, Alyce, have they stolen from you to give to the rich?
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If I could get away with it, I'd be Robin Hood.
DUmb-farks just don't understand that Robin hood stole from the government (evil sheriff) who was over taxing the people and stealing their land, and gave back to the taxpayers.
Yeah, freedom! :cheersmate:
Beat me to it. This is one of my pet peeves. To hear someone say Robin Hood stole from the rich is insane. Those who repeat this idiocy are usually those who are not happy to learn/hear it was corrupt gov't he was robbing.
I would LOVE for someone to give me back some of my hard earned money .... I get tired of supporting the DUmmies.
KC
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Oh, come on! It would be fun seeing Barbra Streisand and Oprah Winfart living in a government project in Gary, Indiana because some DUmbass confiscated all their wealth.
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Rich = Wicked ??? WTF?
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