Quote from: Astargath on February 28, 2018, 01:53:11 PM

Quote from: alia on February 28, 2018, 01:50:24 PM

Quote from: nullius on February 28, 2018, 01:48:09 PM

Quote from: alia on February 28, 2018, 01:37:43 PM

Quote from: nullius on February 28, 2018, 01:36:21 PM

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:

Quote from: nullius on February 07, 2018, 07:39:20 PM

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.

Quote

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

And exchanges that turned out to be a scam handled thousands of bitcoins before stealing any of them. It means nothing that you haven't stolen 10 bitcoins if your plans are to steal more, not saying you are.

Very good point. And that is why, regardless of my intentions, I encourage every user to use escrow with me. That way, there can never be a scam, even if 10,000 bitcoins are involved.