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If, hypothetically, I enlist you to commit a crime like robbing a bank, and we abscond with say, $1,000,000 - that is a crime. If during the getaway we not onl
by AaronFriel 6y ago
If, hypothetically, I enlist you to commit a crime like robbing a bank, and we abscond with say, $1,000,000 - that is a crime.
If during the getaway we not only lose every dollar but total our Lamborghini, sure, we may have a net loss, but it doesn't make it not a crime.
- cgriswald 6y agoIt would be fair to say that you didn’t profit from the robbery. A better example would be robbing the bank, keeping the money, but your $3,000,000 mansion burned down. Your net worth has dropped, but you did profit from the robbery.
- AaronFriel 6y agoThe crime was, and always was, the first action (transaction?) between the people doing the heist and the bank. Whatever happened afterward is irrelevant. For at least one instant, in the hypothetical we had $1,000,000 in ill-gotten gains. I assume that's some sort of crime in whatever jurisdiction you are in, and if not, well, there are banks waiting for you friend.
- cgriswald 6y ago> For at least one instant, in the hypothetical we had $1,000,000 in ill-gotten gains. Highly debatable. What does it mean to "have" $1,000,000? Is there even such a thing as instantaneous net worth? Being a millionaire for a brief instant with no ability to use the money seems a lot like having $0. Regardless, this just demonstrates that the bank robbery analogy is flawed. It's not illegal for the president to access the classified national security information. How he uses that information is where the crime may have occurred. So perhaps a better analogy is armored car drivers transporting the money. They're allowed to possess the money. They're not allowed to do whatever they want with it, like, say, lend it out for profit.
- eternalban 6y agoBest to take someone else's Lamborghini to a bank heist.
- AaronFriel 6y agoNo one said in this hypothetical we were smart criminals.