• Flying SquidM
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    539 months ago

    Yeah, but you’re not really conning the higher-ups, you’re conning the grannies who are going to church and giving away their social security money. And they really don’t deserve to be conned even if it would be easy to con them.

    • @surewhynotlem
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      09 months ago

      They’re going to be conned. Might as well be by someone who can help them with that money.

        • @surewhynotlem
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          59 months ago

          Argumentum ad pessimism, actually

          • @Aremel
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            69 months ago

            Can you explain what that means, and what the other guy said please?

            • @surewhynotlem
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              149 months ago

              He called me an idiot. I said no, I’m a pessimist

              • @[email protected]
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                9 months ago

                My intention wasn’t to call you an idiot (which me misusing that Latin phrase would make ME the idiot lol), it was to point out the “If I don’t do it someone else will” moral justification / fallacy that a lot of people, such as drug dealers for example, use to skirt the moral responsibility of their actions.