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by rednixion 2516 days ago
Sounds like you are just trying to justify whatever logic allows you to benefit. Amazon resold a fake charger so you should be allowed to steal that guy's bananas, got it.
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His argument is "I live in a low-trust society, in which large and powerful institutions are only out for themselves, carelessly fuck me, nobody cares, and so it is my moral obligation to protect my personal interests by whatever means possible."

It's a very sour mindset, but it's also very common in third world countries and American inner-city ghettos where affairs are quite nasty.