If I didn't have ethics, I could con so many religious people...
I think about this sometimes I could go to school and build a career for myself, or I could make way twice the money in half the time doing shit like this.
Sometimes I hate that I have a sense of guilt. Life would be so much easier if I were a psychopath
If it makes you feel any better, it's probably hard to figure out when to get out. You'll always feel like you can do just one more because the last one worked out so well, but each time you cash in, more people will see the truth and might want in on it until you find yourself in a situation where you can't stop even if you wanted to because then the others who you are propping up will turn on you.
It is completely ethical to remove the funding power from those who would cause others to suffer.
Just sayin, you have options.
If that is unethical then all of religion is unethical hey wait a second...
I long ago came to the conclusion that a slice of the American Dream is still out there to be had, as long as you don't mind cutting it out of a bunch of suckers and rubes. Alas, my petty sense of morality is stopping me from joining the ranks of the wealthy elite, but at least I can sleep at night knowing my lifestyle isn't directly financed by the misery of people I made a conscious choice to hurt.
That's almost universally true at the multimillionaire and above level unless you inherited it all. You don't get that rich without stepping on everyone you can to get there.
Elon Musk has ruined a ridiculous number of people on his way to the top and he continues to do it.
Could easily rationalize it. Suckers are going to find a religion to con then no matter what. You could provide a less harmful option.
I'm not saying you should, but you could find a way to justify it. It's pretty easy money.
I don't think a 'less harmful' con makes the con any more ethical. And I don't want to take poor people's money. A lot of people giving to televangelists are people living on social security and the like.
Conning religious people isn't unethical /s?
I knew a kid who'd go door to door in neighborhoods requesting donations for the poor.
In his mind he was being honest because he was "the poor"
Reminds me of the Human Fund and its slogan "money for people".
Ah the classic Empty Pocket Society
So you accidentally learned the greatest lesson the church has to offer. Salvation for a profit.
Also, religious fanatics are really gullible
Well...they are religious. SKY CAKE!
Honestly. I think that's what many of the nutjob protestors and "commentators" do. Why work a real job when you can be paid by suckers to jetset around the country/world spouting controversial views.
That's basically what Fred Phelps and crew did.
Since it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter heaven, relieving said rich man of their excess wealth is actually a kindness. Therefore this is an ethical life pro tip.
While everyone's telling their stories. In middle school. My friend had a game shark book with game shark codes and he would write them all out and then sell them to kids that didn't have a game shark.
First gameshark I had for my PS1 was a little brick that went into the serial port. Fucker didn't work and I couldn't return it for a refund. Some time later, I got a gameshark as a CD and that one worked wonders. Too bad it would crash if I saved too many extra codes into the memory card.
I did something similar when I was like 11. Went on a "canned food drive" around the neighborhood because it was summer and I was hungry.
To be fair, my family was poor and used services that actual drives would benefit, so I just cut out the middle man.
Full circle since I Rember reading that blink got started telling schools they wanted to play concerts in gymnasiums to spread a positive Christian message.
Brilliant looping going on, even betterer then banananana
Is there actually any way literal grown adults fell for this
Have you ever talked with fundamentalist? It's not only plausible, but those adults have probably done the same thing while actually being serious about the preaching part in the concert
Yes.
Religious fanatics are that gullible, they do after all believe in really shittily written fairytales as if they're real.
Yes! I went to an evangelical church run private school. They had the brilliant idea to send good "strong Christian" students to raves and parties to narc on their classmates that attended said raves and parties. I wish I was making that up.
Damn. I went to Jesus school from first grade all the way through high school. Doing something like that would have been a real quick way to get your ass kicked into a Jesus loving grease spot.
Depends on the town. Some of the ones in the Bible Belt? Absolutely possible. In others it's completely possible they knew the kids were lying and decided it was fun to play along and get them to a concert.
I'd be astounded if they didn't.
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My best friend and I wanted to go to a Blink 182 concert in high school but couldn't afford tickets, so we told everyone in our extremely Baptist Oklahoma town that God called us to spread the gospel at an evil secular concert but we needed donations to get in. We turned a profit
Well considering that this is 100% fake bullshit, it's probably not even worth asking that question.
