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nobody's ever sued me for leaving flaming bags of dog poop on your front porch before ringing your doorbell and making a getaway by segway while cackling madly.
by igor47 8y ago
nobody's ever sued me for leaving flaming bags of dog poop on your front porch before ringing your doorbell and making a getaway by segway while cackling madly. yet, every day, i resist the overriding temptation to do exactly that. why? well, gosh darn it, because it's the right thing to do!
i think the drive to reduce every bit of human behavior to economic incentives backed by a government force structure is ultimately counterproductive. would you agree?
- komali2 8y agoI agree, but in this system we indoctrinate our children to operate on profit motives. It took me many decades to understand that money is, ironically, worthless.
- barry-cotter 8y agoIf you’re trying to explain the behaviour of unusually, upstanding moral people sure. If you’re trying to deal with anything larger than a small and highly committed group no. > there are three classes of humans 1) those who will throw the rock at you with the mob 2) those who will not throw the rock and avert their eyes 3) those who will speak out against throwing the rocks > the ratio is probably 90:9:1
- iainmerrick 8y agoI’d be a little more optimistic and put the ratio at more like 9:90:1. We don’t typically go around continually throwing actual rocks at each other, so it is possible to make progress on these issues.
- barry-cotter 8y agohttps://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/03/new-york-times-drops-razib-khan-204287 https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/03/new-york-times-... The author of the tweet quoted was speaking metaphorically based on his own experience. Virtually no one supported him publicly when he needed it.
- matz1 8y agoGood but me and I'm sure many other people will happily leave flaming of dog poop on your front porch before ringing your doorbell and making a getaway by segway while cackling madly if nobody ever sued me.
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- bumholio 8y ago>leaving flaming bags of dog poop on your front porch before ringing your doorbell and making a getaway by segway while cackling madly. yet, every day, i resist the overriding temptation If there were millions of dollars to be made in the flaming dog shit Segway getaway business, I am positive many would succumb to the temptation. So your comparison is unfair, it's easy for you to avoid such a behavior because you have no benefits. Not securing a device is a significant economic win for the manufacturer, as explained by the thread originator. You get a device that "just works" as opposed to one with complex key setup instructions that by necessity must default in the misconfigured state (else, you bet everybody is using the defaults).
- Angostura 8y agoHow much money do you earn by leaving flaming bags of dog poop? Can you get rich that way?