Happy Festivus! Airing of Grievances 2024 Edition

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by G1911

You will find that in a situation, most fraudulent responses to it are easier to do than honest ones. That does not justify it, and you all would not think that for other things. Nor does it render you incapable of "get[ting] the "grievance" or whatever you want to call it", when you actually understand it perfectly well because you knew why it would be wrong for other people to do it. Not a single person ever argued that it would be easier to be honest. Your argument was not, until possibly right now months later, that the bullshit was merely more convenient. Your argument up to just a few minutes ago was explicitly that you did not even get what the grievance is - even though you get it 100% perfectly fine when it's not Memory Lane doing it. If you want to reduce your position to this much lesser one, I would still posit the apparent violations of state law it seems they committed in doing it would render it not pragmatic or advisable, but that's another issue.

I get what you and others think is technically wrong with it. But if the intent was not to hurt anyone and no one in fact would have been defrauded no matter what the outcome, I'm not understanding the magnitude of the grievance. I mean the OP is calling it the worst thing that happened in the hobby all year (worse than all the actual thefts? really?)and maybe you agree. Again, IMO, it's a complex problem with various interested parties and without a great solution, but applying simple moral platitudes is not necessarily the best way to look at it I don't think. You can repeat the "they sold what they didn't have" mantra 1000 times but in these unique circumstances it doesn't really tell the whole story.