Mrs. Hood

[Skybird]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,663024,00.html

Little thieves are hanged, but the great ones escape.

[Respenus]

Stealing is wrong, yet helping people make ends met is not. :salute: She should be doing some community service instead of paying 1.1M herself, with only a meagrely pension. Where are justice and the social state now?

[Jimbuna]

I really feel for her, considering her motives....but what choice did she give the law?

Community service helping those most in need would have been far more appropriate.

[Skybird]

This must be seen in comparison to gamblers and bankers who have dumbed hundreds of billions and will never be held responsible althoug they made the responsible decisions, cared for their own advanatges, and who even go on the counter-attack by engaging the courts over their demands to be compensated with million-heavy boni and golden hand-shakes when leaving despite the corrupt behavior and/or incompetence.

IMO the banking, insurance, energy, pharmaceutical, weapons and IT branches of business are nothing else but organised crime in exactly the same meaning like the Mafia. But instead of seeing it as the capital crimes these branches are, they get minimised - because all to often politicians and lawmakers are allied with or sitting in the board of directors of according enterprises, and so it is made sure that nobody tries to hurt anyone else.

the only way to get rid of this cancer is by fire and sword. It's all a stinking box of rotten meat. Trust in the legal system is in no way justified here. Not only because of corrupted laws, but becasue of law enforcerment institutions hopelessly overloaded and not equipped with the personnel levels they need.

[Platapus]

While her motivations may be laudable, her actions were not.

This is an example of the debate between the philosophies of Consequentialism and Deontology, which has been argued for a very long time.

Personally I am not a subscriber to Consequentialism, but many good people are. :hmmm: