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> Meh, this is just ridiculous moral posturing. Got the same feeling. Couldn't help but think it was mostly an opportunity for the author to brag about his l33
by gthtjtkt 9y ago
> Meh, this is just ridiculous moral posturing.
Got the same feeling. Couldn't help but think it was mostly an opportunity for the author to brag about his l33t h4x0r skillz as a kid. "Look at me, I was in the newspaper when I was younger! Oh and you shouldn't do bad things... duh!" The reason good people do bad things is because it's not always that easy to 'just say no'. What if your boss is pressuring you to do something unethical and you can't afford to say no? Have we forgotten about all those people at Wells Fargo already?
The funniest part is that it sounds like he wasn't capable of doing what his uncle requested (otherwise I'm sure he would've jumped at the opportunity to impress us with an explanation of how it could've been done). So he wasn't even lying.
"My uncle asked me to do something unethical but I couldn't do it, so I didn't. Please clap."
- wand3r 9y agoI didn't read it that way. I think he mentioned it as an explanation of how his uncle got in touch and why.