Ethical dilemma: hypothetical situations

[Urban Ranger]

What would you do in these scenarioes:

1. If you have a chance to be a modern day white collar equivalvent of Robin Hood, will you take it?

2. If you can scam a lot of people each for a small amount of money, e.g. 10 million people at a dollar each, will you do that, providing that the people you scam don't care much about that dollar they lose?

3. As a computer cracker, you happen upon a racket of money laundering. If there's no way you can be found out, will you make off billions of dollars from some druglords?

[Asher]

1. No
2. No
3. Yes

[C0ckney]

1. no
2. yes
3. no

[Berzerker]

all three are stealing, no

[Dis]

2 is tricky. You say it is a scam, but the people don't care?

I think of this as cyber-begging. I probably wouldn't mind doing that. If the people don't mind, then I probably would be OK with this.

Definately not #1. Don't get me started on teaching Robin Hood to elementary schools. Talk about brain washing . Stealing is stealing.

The only reason I voted on #2 is because you said the people don't mind. Therefore I can't consider it stealing.

#3 is illegas as well.

[David Floyd]

No to all.

[TheStinger]

no
maybe
yes

[Urban Ranger]

Why do you think it is an unethical action to take money from druglords, seeing that it is ill-gotten rich anyway?

[Wraith]

1) Which Robin Hood are you talking about? The myths around this have altered rather a lot over time (particularly once Disney got their hands on it, but oh well). I'd rather go the Ragnar Danneskjold route myself.

2) No.

3) Better off playing anonymous tipster to the DEA or someone. I think drugs should be legalized, but druglords aren't nice people.

Wraith
“I've chosen a special mission of my own. I'm after a man whom I want to destroy. He died many centuries ago, but until the last trace of him is wiped out of men's minds, we will not have a decent world to live in.”
-- Ragnar Danneskjold ("Atlas Shruggd")

[General Ludd]

No, that's all too much trouble to go through (and get into) for money.

[Tingkai]

Re: Ethical dilemma: hypothetical situations

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
What would you do in these scenarioes:

1. If you have a chance to be a modern day white collar equivalvent of Robin Hood, will you take it?

2. If you can scam a lot of people each for a small amount of money, e.g. 10 million people at a dollar each, will you do that, providing that the people you scam don't care much about that dollar they lose?

3. As a computer cracker, you happen upon a racket of money laundering. If there's no way you can be found out, will you make off billions of dollars from some druglords?

Sounds like the start of a movie plot.

[Solly]

No.
Yes.
Yes.

[Skanky Burns]

Number 3 only. Considering there is no chance to be found out, there are no (negative) consequences for doing this. And by removing some of the druglords money, there will be just that many more people no exposed to their evil drugs.
The billions in my bank account would just be a bonus.

[Datajack Franit]

Yes
Yes
Yes

I've seen enough people so shamefully rich to feed their dogs with caviar and silver forks

[orange]

I'd consider two and three, but probably just three.