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"Have you looked at them?" Pipino said, holding up a fork. The craftsmanship was impeccable. "If you don’t take them, it’s a sin," he declared. "Plus, they’re w
by merraksh 12y ago
"Have you looked at them?" Pipino said, holding up a fork. The craftsmanship was impeccable. "If you don’t take them, it’s a sin," he declared. "Plus, they’re worth about a million lire." That was roughly $100,000. Claudio nodded and moved on.
In 1991, one dollar was worth about 1,200 Italian liras, so a million liras would be about $800.
- natosaichek 12y agoMaybe there were ~ 125 individual pieces of cutlery? at $800 apiece, the total would be 100k... That does seem like a lot of cutlery, though.
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- AnimalMuppet 12y ago> "If you don’t take them, it’s a sin" That's... an interesting sense of morality that he has.
- msandford 12y agoDifferent groups have different moral codes. If you're a highly respected, professional burglar then not taking something so good could be considered professional misconduct. The origin of the word "sin" as most people use it today is a word from archery. It means hitting the target but missing the center. Pretty apt for a renowned burglar to not take something which is highly valuable and very portable on a robbery.
- dghf 12y ago> The origin of the word "sin" as most people use it today is a word from archery. It means hitting the target but missing the center. This page (which gives the OED as a source) says that's true of the Greek hamartia (often translated as "sin") but not of the English word itself: http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comments/trespass_sin_debt/ http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comments/trespass_...
- Terr_ 12y agoOr, y'know, figuratively...
- alan_cx 12y agoI guess its a comment about the morality of the rich. The idea being that to get rich, whatever rich is, it is assumed that they effectively stole from the poor. So taking it back is re-appropriation, or some such. Personally, I see tax as the civilised way of doing that. Granted, that doesn't work that well, but then given our democracies, that up to the masses to vote for it, who are basically the poor.