Friday, November 20, 2020

License to Lie

    Perhaps not a representative sample, but it could be so, as modeled from the top down:   A woman posts on a sales site that she is selling one of those pricey baby items that end up unused, unnecessary. She says it is in new condition, with all parts present, but that the store, Walmart's or such, would not take it back, probably because it was past the return date. So she is listing it for sale. 

   In a comment on her sale site, a woman proposes that she tell the store that a part was missing. The store, Walmart's, will then accept it as a return. It seems likely she has done this herself, according to her assurance.  Not only would this be an outright lie, there is no shame attached. She may as well have told the would-be seller to steal something. Except for avoiding the likelihood of being caught in her lie, what she proposes is fraud, tantamount to theft. And  to publicly broadcast the lie, as if proud of the deception, signifies the decline of any moral compass. "Have you no shame?"

      

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