2011-07-04, 06:34 PM
Rick Wrote:There comes a point where acting like this just becomes irrational and annoying. You drive, Sarah. Do you enjoy the member of Greenpeace standing on the street corner telling you your car is destroying the Earth? You eat meat. Do you enjoy PETA telling you you're a murderer? Or do you wish they would just let you carry on with your day?
Let's use a more accurate and realistic analogy.
You just got out of college, got your first real job and moved into a new house and the Jones' next door to you, who've both been working 20 years longer than you and have a two income household to begin with, have all sorts of shiny new things they can afford that you can't, so you decide to embezzle the money from your brand new job so you can afford those shiny things too and be just like the cool Jones' next door without having put in the time and money and effort to actually earn those status symbols or come by them legitimately.
It's a big company so what you're doing clearly isn't hurting anybody. The Jones' still have all their stuff so clearly you haven't wronged your neighbors somehow. You just saw what they had, wanted it for yourself and found a convenient and clever way to get it. No harm, no foul, riiiiiiiiight?
How dare that police department, judge and panel of your peers accuse you of doing something wrong and want you held accountable, all you were doing was trying to be cool like the Jones' because society said you had to?
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.