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From: gmack@cisden.UUCP (Gregg Mackenzie)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women
Subject: Re: Honesty (New Subject?)
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 16:25:02 EST
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>>If someone  commits  a crime at what point do you turn them in or do you?  

In article <1448@osu-eddie.UUCP> mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) writes:
>  [...Roommate finds checkbook...commits fraud, forgery, grand theft, who-
>   knows-what-else,...Mark moves damage to party who can better afford it,...
>   Mark breaks stereo before leaving town...]
>
>I knew about the whole plan from the beginning.  What was my responsibility?

You should have told him you were going to turn him in if he went through
with it.  Moving the damage did nothing; stealing is stealing regardless of
who can best afford the loss.  How do you know that the stereo store was
better able to afford the loss than the girl?  Maybe she was better off than
you think she was.

>I suppose that I should have turned him in,
>but I just didn't feel right about it.  I certainly couldn't sit and watch him
>steal almost all of some poor girl's tuition money, so I found a compromise.

You didn't "feel right" about turning him in, but you felt right about 
shifting the loss and about breaking the stereo?  Obviously, you felt you 
needed to do something, even if it was really nothing.  Was he a good-
enough buddy that you couldn't turn him in, but not really *that* good a
buddy so that you could break "his" stereo?  I don't like your code of 
ethics, Mark.  

If you didn't want to be the one to turn him in, another solution would have
been to call the stereo store and let them know he was on his way down and
let them call the cops.  You could've called the girl whose checkbook it was
and told her who had it and then let her call the cops.  At least she'd've
known what happened to her checkbook.  I think you could've come up with a
better solution given the amount of time you had to think about it.

Gregg Mackenzie
cisden!gmack