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From: mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile)
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Subject: Re: Re: Honesty (New Subject?)
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 02:17:32 EST
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> >>If someone  commits  a crime at what point do you turn them in or do you?  
> 
...
>
> 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

.....******%%%%######$$$$@@@@ sputter sizzle spUTTUT--*F*L*A*M*E*!*!*!*!

Of all the self-rightous crap!  The fellow came to this group with a mess
of doubt and a willingness to learn and all you can do is complain about
his ethics and see to it that he will be very reluctant to try to ask
for advice again!  Close down his way to self-improvement, that's it.
He couldn't possibly ever be as moral and socially responsible as you.
You wouldn't allow it.

Well, Mr. Mackenzie, when did YOU find yourself in this bind?  When did you
have to make this kind of choice?  I'm dying to hear how a pillar of moral
strength such as yourself handled it!

If indeed you ARE this pillar of moral strength, I hope that you appreciate
the dilemma.  If you DON'T, then your strength is not moral strength, it is
dogma reduced to knee-jerking, without any trace of human compassion.  Show
us all how right you are and how wrong we are.  Your ideas, your values are
so good that it doesn't matter who gets injured by the concussion when they
hit.

Save it.
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