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RE: That's SO Unfair! Scammers Often Become Whiny Complainers When You Turn the Tables on Them...
I'm just trying to make a LIVING
lol, yeah how many times has that been used to justify doing something...
Some think all is fair in the process of making money. If it's not against the legal system, then it's allowed. If other people are doing something to make money, then they will do it too.
I remember many years ago I found myself talking to a former IRS tax collections agent. He made the interesting point that the IRS invites taxpayers to use any and all rules-- and combination of rules-- in the Internal Revenue code to avoid paying taxes. Tax avoidance is legal; tax evasion is not.
It was an interesting-- and quite unexpected-- insight into the greater "game theory" nature of money.
Some people "rape" the Steemit rewards pool because there's nothing in the "Steemit Code" that disallows them from doing so.
We can discuss ethics, morals, values and "right action" till we're blue in the face... but it ultimately only amounts to so much intellectual masturbation. People will "do what they do" unless there are controls in place that renders such "doing" unviable... be they through hard coding, or a pressure from a form of majority "mob rule."
If it's simply "people will do what they do", why don't I do it as well? The real -- yet hardest -- solution is for education: to learn how to think and learn so that one can know right from wrong and not have to be told or controlled to prevent from doing wrong. Not all behavior can be coded for specifically on the blockchain. It's not like a normal site database. I think removing the ability to self-vote completely would help or only allowing on posts.
And why don't I do it, as well. Along with a bunch of other people who place morals and ethics ahead of personal gain.
We've touched on this before... many ideologies are beautiful and would make for an amazing world IF there was a majority who believed in "right action" and basic "do no harm" and so on... but such large numbers just want "the easy out."
I have no profound solutions or suggestions... all we can do is set an example and not back down from what we believe to be right speech and right action.
Indeed. I wasn't always like this, is my point I guess. I became better. Information was put out that I took in. If more and more people do that, more and more exposure is applied to certain topics that people should think and learn about. Then that progresses to changing minds :)