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That is not the point. There's the legal system. Then there's morality and how you raise kids. If the parents act like these, they shouldn't be surprised the
by TacticalCoder 5y ago
That is not the point. There's the legal system. Then there's morality and how you raise kids. If the parents act like these, they shouldn't be surprised they're raising little filthy thieves.
In other words: parents raising kids giving them values like respecting the private property of others (no matter if it's actual physical gold coins, a bicycle, Bitcoins or whatever really) probably wouldn't use such pathetic tactics to try to dismiss the case. But the real point is: parents raising kids with actual values probably wouldn't be raising scummy thieves in the first place.
- baryphonic 5y agoThe parents were wrong to ignore the victim's letters. That's a lot of money to force your kids give back, and I know it would be tempting to keep it if my kids did a similar thing, but the morally courageous thing would have been to return it then and there. It seems they took the greedy path. However, aggressively defending one's legal rights is also morally justified, esp. in Common Law jurisdictions with adversarial procedure. In fact, we'd likely have a more just (and thus more moral) system if more people asserted their legal rights in criminal trials, and took matters before juries rather than prisoner's dilemma plea agreements. (I understand why they don't, which is why plea agreements are so pernicious.)
- paxys 5y agoWould there even be a way to verify the victim's claims? If I got a random letter in the mail saying my kid stole $XX and I should pay it back voluntarily to not get the courts involved, I'd just toss it in the trash.