Mrs. Hood

Skybird · 11-24-09, 07:01 AM

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

Little thieves are hanged, but the great ones escape.

Respenus · 11-24-09, 01:40 PM

Stealing is wrong, yet helping people make ends met is not.

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 · 11-24-09, 04:00 PM

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 · 11-24-09, 04:31 PM

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 · 11-24-09, 09:09 PM

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.

11-24-09, 07:01 AM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,637 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Mrs. Hood http://www.spiegel.de/international/...663024,00.html Little thieves are hanged, but the great ones escape. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

11-24-09, 01:40 PM	#2
Respenus Ace of the Deep Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,169 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Stealing is wrong, yet helping people make ends met is not. 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? __________________

11-24-09, 04:00 PM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,552 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	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. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-24-09, 04:31 PM	#4
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,637 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

11-24-09, 09:09 PM	#5
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,373 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.