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We often call things 'The Real World' when we see how harsh and unethical the current reality often is, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for a more ide
by Joof 11y ago
We often call things 'The Real World' when we see how harsh and unethical the current reality often is, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for a more ideal one.
We have to work within those real rules, but it would be a shame if those rules define us.
- mirimir 11y agoYes, he deserved slack. MIT dropped the ball, for sure. However, my point is that it's very dangerous to count on slack. Consider the theft of that cannon from Fleming House. Sure, it was a prank. And Caltech didn't press charges. All in good fun. But interstate theft is a federal crime.
- Joof 11y agoThe whole thing seems politically motivated from an outside source. Precedents at MIT effectively encourage this behavior (the law isn't a moral absolute; you've broken the law at least once; I wouldn't be surprised if I've unknowingly committed a few felonies). If the expectation was otherwise he wouldn't have behavied as he did. His mistake was likely that he had become somebody important; something of a political figure. That's when people start about caring what you do (by definition). Remember that bastard that hiked up the price of life saving drugs who got slapped with an old felony? Nobody would have bothered to find it if he wasn't the most hated man in America.