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In the old times people would just shoot you or before clubbed to the head and take your cow/wife/house etc. Yes, now we have some laws and all that but in rea
by sourcecodeplz 4y ago
In the old times people would just shoot you or before clubbed to the head and take your cow/wife/house etc.
Yes, now we have some laws and all that but in reality: stealing is still rampant, just a different kind!?
- moffkalast 4y agoThe worst kind of stealing, the kind where you still have your property!
- berjin 4y agoThe property is not very useful if there is a phisherman standing outside the door stealing all the traffic.
- moffkalast 4y agoWell you know what they say, phish a man and you anger him for a day, teach a man to phish and he'll ask you for help with moving large sums of money out of his war-torn country of Nigeria.
- Spivak 4y agoThe very worst kind of stealing, the kind that robs you of a thing that isn’t yours to own but something you feel you deserve.
- spencerflem 4y agoC'mon, you know it's scummy. Obviously the person making the original deserves the audience and not the lazy look-alike.
- thecoppinger 4y agoI reflect on this often. There’s something to be said for the lost ways of retribution of old, and the evolution that came with it. If modern bankers and sycophantic politicians et al tried their modus operandi back in the era of tribes, I’m quite sure they were removed from the gene pool fairly quickly.
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- vorpalhex 4y agoIt's worth reading the history here. Usually "your group" would steal from you and tell you it was some outside group. You go burn down and lynch a bunch of people who had nothing to do with it. Often times this included moneylenders.. who were usually a religious minority. It usually involved their kids too.
- Spivak 4y agoWhat you describe was literally the cause of the revolutionary war in the US!
- vorpalhex 4y agoNo, the British were actually taxing the Americans without representation and running kangaroo courts, though the tea ship the colonists attacked wasn't really all that involved.
- thecoppinger 4y agoI wrote my original comment at the midnight hour as I was falling asleep; I should have clarified that I meant more ancient than that, i.e. pre-agriculture, post-cave dwelling. More along the lines of: Jim has a bad habit of being a bit of a dick—harassing & bullying tribespeople, taking an unfair amount from the tribe—Jim gets removed from the gene pool next hunting trip. The quality of the tribe, present and future, improves. I understand how this kind of thing doesn't track very well as a strategy overall in more complex & modern environments.
- MaxBarraclough 4y agoLawlessness and retribution didn't stop the robber barons.
- thecoppinger 4y ago