Too bad for you, that ship sailed when Dave said he didnt know you. My standards means that to satisfy my conscience, I do not need to examine massive piles of evidence on many different charges (as I would for red-tags). It only means I need to catch you in one significant lie. Whereupon I adhere the ancient and timeless principle:
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.
False in one thing, false in everything.
Pretty good point, I guess. A crime is a crime. Stealing a candy bar is equal to murder. Today you lost not only a friend but a heart
Nice attempt to seize the moral high ground in what counts for moral high ground in todays cesspit of a world. Also, nice attempt to minimize the fact that you were trying to scam people by claiming to know Dave from the best wallet recovery service IRL. I nailed you hard on that, right here in this thread. Is that what you would consider a minor infraction? Or what you yourself purport about leaving yourself positive trust feedback via your alleged brothers account? (I red-tag people for that without a second thought!) Or, for that matter, stealing a candy bar? Are you one of those people who pretends that shoplifting be inconsequential, a kind of a joke?
Anyway, have you heard of Draco? He lends his name to the word
draconian. I admire him.
As to trust, dishonesty, and lies specifically, I linked this upthread:
There are so very many two-legged creatures on this Earth who are for some reason deemed people. If any of them violates my trust, why should I ever grant second chances? There are too many others out there who are potentially untrustworthy, and too few who are actually trustworthy. I will never have an opportunity to give a first chance to more than a negligible fraction of all those people. Why waste my time with anybody who has proved untrustworthy even once?
More generally, I grant neither mercy nor forgiveness to people who did things they knew or should have known were wrong. Those are not accounted virtues in my religion. Here apropos, I still remember people whom I know to have cheated in school as teenagers. I would not trust them in business, even decades later. They were inferior in character then, and will be now. I will instead try trusting people who never cheated on school tests. There are plenty enough who, at least, where never that dishonest.
Here apropos, I still remember people whom I know to have cheated in school as teenagers. I would not trust them in business, even decades later.
This sums it up. I may have looked at my friend's test in the 5th grade and copied a word or two, but I have handled >10 BTC without my iTcHy sCaMmEr hAnDs making a grab for them. It is possible that one wrongdoing is less serious than another. You like to deal in absolutes, unfortunately the world is not always black and white