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Subscreet · 01-28-2009, 08:03 PM

This isn't as ridiculous as you're all making it out to be, it's just cherry-picking headlines. I know these forums just love to rail against corporations but it appears you're doing it without a critical analysis.

There's more to the these stories. What he did was certainly wrong, but the AIG exec didn't just steal 500 million dollars and those millions were lost over the course of years. It's not comparable to a man who comes into a bank and robs it with the implicit threat of violence. It seems like you're trying to make the homeless man more noble than he actually is. It doesn't matter that he only took $100 or that he turned himself in the next day. He could have been strung out or he could have just turned himself in for the food and shelter, and he also may have had priors that influenced the judge's decision.

There certainly is a disparity in sentencing and prison population when it comes to race and socioeconomic status, but this strikes me as apples and oranges really.

01-28-2009, 08:03 PM	#6 (permalink)
Subscreet Banned Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 116	This isn't as ridiculous as you're all making it out to be, it's just cherry-picking headlines. I know these forums just love to rail against corporations but it appears you're doing it without a critical analysis. There's more to the these stories. What he did was certainly wrong, but the AIG exec didn't just steal 500 million dollars and those millions were lost over the course of years. It's not comparable to a man who comes into a bank and robs it with the implicit threat of violence. It seems like you're trying to make the homeless man more noble than he actually is. It doesn't matter that he only took $100 or that he turned himself in the next day. He could have been strung out or he could have just turned himself in for the food and shelter, and he also may have had priors that influenced the judge's decision. There certainly is a disparity in sentencing and prison population when it comes to race and socioeconomic status, but this strikes me as apples and oranges really. Last edited by Subscreet; 01-28-2009 at 08:25 PM.