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Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer
svnt writes "Janella Spears wiped out her husband's retirement account, remortgaged their paid-for house, and took out a lien against the family car in an attempt to cash in on the deal. A undercover officer involved with the investigation called it the worst example of the scam he's ever seen. Thoughtfully, Spears has gone public with her story as a warning to others not to fall victim."
the casinos are.
FTA: "They are so desperate to recoup their losses with the big payout, they descend into a vicious cycle of sending money in hopes the false promises will turn out to be real."
From the casinos: "They (the gamblers) are so desperate to recoup their losses with the big payout, they decend into a vicious cycle of *betting* money in hopes the false promises (of actually winning) will turn out to be real."
The only difference between the Nigerian scam and the casino scam, is the government IS involved in the casino scam and gets to share your money.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
"Certainly, what the scammer did was morally and legally wrong and what this woman did was not. But that is orthogonal to the fact that it is this woman's fault that she got ripped off. (And it is also the scammer's fault for ripping her off.)"
work out your logical contradictions here
then get back to us
if someone does something morally and legally wrong, they are at fault. beginning and end of story. the use of the word "orthogonal" then is just bloviating and meaningless
there is a difference between stupid and evil. stupid often enables evil, but you always punish evil, never the stupid. when you punish the stupid instead of the evil, you have become stupid or evil yourself, because you have helped enable evil by allowing them to get off for their crimes while you focus your fury on the stupid
the stupid, by definition of being stupid, have a diminished capacity in the crime in question. when you are in the business of assigning blame, you must always begin and end with the concept of intent. to consider any other concept waters down the rightful punishment those with bad intent deserve, and share their punishment with the victims and innocent bystands... who are just orthogonal to a crime ;-)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
howabout we use a new concept: functional morality, or utilitarian righteousness, or whatever sounds cool to you...
the point being, we wish to live in a world with a bare minimum possible of nigerian scammers, right?
well, what is best focus of our moral and legal imperative to punish?
if we are waging a war on this activity, who do we target, who do we punish?
well, we need stupid people to enable the activities of these criminals
but the stupid victims are just that: stupid. stupidity is an endless bottomless pit. you will never get rid of stupid people in this world
meanwhile, there are only a certain number of scammers. oh sure, its a game of wackamole, and there will always people who will pursue scamming as a way to make cash, just as certainly as there will always be stupid people
however, you are trying to do your best to minimize scammers, therefore, simply because the scammers are the smaller pool in question, you focus all of your righteous fury, functional punishment, whatever you want to call it, on them, and you actually make a larger dent on this activity
you get better results than if you meanwhile hem and haw about stupid people. which will make no difference. there will always be suckers
how's that arugment strike you?:
focus your contempt on the nigerian scammers, get better results
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I see the Christian bashers are out today.
Why don't you say the same thing about Muslims and Buddhists? Afraid they might blow you up or sit on you? :-/
Maybe if you stopped your stupid stereotyping of religions and actually looked into any of them, you'd be surprised. But you won't do that, because you'd rather not even have any information that conflicts with what you believe. Then you don't need to throw it out.
There's a Christian pastor close to where I live that just issued a challenge to his congregation, for all the married couples to have sex every day for a week. Another a couple of hours drive away recently issued a similar challenge, but it was ever day for a month.
I bet you'd never expect that from a Christian, would you. Especially a Christian leader.
"Oooohh! But Christians think sex is dirty and bad and evil! I know that because I heard it on TV!!"
I've got a crap load of skepticism, and I for one, don't find anything scientific that satisfactorily explains how all this got here. I'm not saying that any particular religion has a better explanation, either, because there are serious holes in a lot of those, too.
But you really need to start thinking for yourself, rather than mudslinging.
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
It's either insightful or flamebait (or maybe both), but why is it modded funny?
Dumbest fucking person on Earth. Right, so the republicans will snap her right up and have her for president in 2012. Admit it america, you want her.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.