Originally Posted by
gimmick
While we are on the subject of internet badassery, why don't we just confront the person in hypothetical #2 scenario? Is it also a law that we can only get back at the guy by the pussiest imaginable ways while adding shekels to our pile of jew gold?
There's huge difference in whether we think something is personal or not. There's no reason for me to take assumed scamming as something personal so i wont make it personal.
There's so many things in these hypotheticals that only happen to certain individuals. For some reason i can't remember a single incident of a clerk being rude at me. I must be lucky.
Confront? And do what? Kick his ass?
Are you saying that violence is okay in this situation, but stealing money out of his dropped wallet isn't? If so, LOL.
I wouldn't take it personally. I would (correctly) assume that this was aimed at any victim of convenience, not just me. That doesn't mean I can't re-victimize him when it's on a silver platter for me.
And there's a reason I asked you the additional question as to whether you would return the wallet if the guy had killed your mother. It was to demonstrate how silly your entire argument of, "Always take the high road, always do the right thing" is when it comes to treatment of people who harmed you in some way.
The whole thing is a hypothetical. In reality, there was no scam, there was no wallet, and I was not a victim of any of this. We are discussing "what-ifs", and I'm posing different questions. So now I'm giving you a new one.
We've already established that you would return the wallet to a guy both if he were just very rude to you and if he actually scammed you. So I kicked it up another notch to "What if he killed your mother?", and I'm genuinely curious what the answer would be.
I believe that each human being has a breaking point where they won't do something kind for another human being, if that human has harmed them in some way. Maybe your breaking point is above scamming, and you'd still want to help a scammer to get back his lost wallet. But clearly there is some breaking point where you wouldn't want to help that guy. What is it?
Too many people like to posture on the internet with absolutes.
"I would never do..."
"Under no circumstances would I...."
"It's always the right thing to..."
But that's usually false virtue signaling crap. We are all human, and the way other humans treat us affects the way we treat them. There's nothing wrong with that, and nothing to be ashamed of. So I'd really like to know -- from everyone here who disagrees with me -- at what point would you NOT want to help get this guy his wallet back?