@skyhighgam3r: You'd be singing to a different tune when you are stuck on Everest with no way down. Most humans are of weak minds.
The idea of a miraculous rescue stems from false hope my friend, because according to science you are as good as dead under that rubble and on the mountain.
There is a reason why most people who go through life and death situations find faith, because false hope is more powerful than truth, it always has been and always will be.
Easy for you to say a bunch of conjecture when you are not dying from cancer or stuck on Everest, we can have the same conversation after your need for false hope outweighs your need for truth.
Truth preachers like you always talk up a good talk, but once they need false hope they all sing to a different tune. Talk jive while sitting in your couch is nice, try to talk the same jive when you are dying on Everest is a different story.
@jshah500: How am I defending them, when I said that petty crime is retarded?
As for proof, the store could easily just say that they opened every single box of PS4 every single shift before selling them, they could verify that with their staff, and onus would then lie on the parents on proving that they did not replace the system with a dud, and investigation can be launched on both ends, and if the store can prove that their staff had indeed checked the system prior to the sale, then the parents could be charged for fraud, unless they can prove otherwise.
The only reason, a investigation wasn't launched as press, that's it, given the context with the kid and all it was bad press.
Bottom line you risk fraud for chump change, go do some serious fraud and make some real bread.
@jshah500: True, but I never understand petty crime.
You risk, jail time and massive fines over fraud if you get caught. What for? A few hundred bones on a PS4.
If you're intent on risking jail time over fraud, you might as well go all the way and do stuff like credit card fraud where the risk is worth the reward.
Why would you risk being convicted for fraud over a PS4?
You can get jail time and a massive fine for fraud if you get caught, not worth it over a few hundred bones.
You might as well just do credit card fraud instead, higher reward, same penalties, less likely to get caught.
If you're intent on breaking the law, do it over some serious money, not chump change. You're risking a criminal record over what, a PS4? I never understand the mentality of petty criminals.
@skyhighgam3r: Religion gives hope where science gives facts.
The fact is when you are diagnosed with terminal cancer, you essentially wait to die, or when you are crushed under the weight of tons of rubbles in an Earthquake you also wait to die. Both cases sciences and truth serves no purpose.
Religion gives people hope in hopeless situations, it gives the human soul the will to live when there is no scientific means to go on.
There is a difference in knowing that you will die and believing that you may live. Knowing that you will die serves absolutely no purpose, when a false belief in hope gives your mind a solace even if it ends in the same result.
People who blindly believe the truth, have never been in life and death situations where the truth serves no purpose. This is also the reason why people who go through tremendous life and death ordeals usually find religion.
When you are stuck on the top of mount Everest with no oxygen and there's a torrential blizzard coming, all the truth in the world won't save you, and that's when people find religion.
There is solace in false hope. Again, usually takes a life lived to come to this conclusion. Give it time, it may come to you yet.
@skyhighgam3r: So, you'd also tell the poor kid in the ghetto that she ain't gonna be no president either, eh.
The truth is when you when you die, you decompose and rot away, not very comforting if you ask me. And poor kids in the ghetto don't become presidents, not very encouraging either.
You really should watch "Hustle and Flow" it may change your entire point of view in life.
@skyhighgam3r: Ever watch a movie called "Hustle and Flow" it was an Oscar Nom Film. Go watch it, and learn the power of lies.
There's a beautiful monologue in the movie, by Oscar award winner Terrence Howard. Mind you I'm not paraphrasing but it goes something like this.
"Why did you lie?"
Howard: "Sometimes in life you gotta lie. I have a little girl who'll grow up and one day ask me if she could become an Astronaut, or the President of the United States. I know she'll never be no president probably never even make it out the ghettos, but you know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna lie to her, and tell her that she can be anything she wants."
The power of a lie is sometimes infinitely more valuable then the truth. Truth is overrated, as you become more mature you begin to understand this.
Your belief in the power of truth seems like something that a young man would say, an older wiser man will almost always disagree with you.
If I had a child who was dying from incurable cancer, am I gonna tell her the truth that she will die and her body will simply rot and decay and she will be no more and forgotten in time. Or will I tell her that she will go to heaven and be with her friends and be healthy and happy in her new world with everything she ever wanted in life. You tell me, which is more powerful the truth or the lie....I say lie.
@skyhighgam3r: You were a precocious kid, then. The truth ain't all its cracked up to be, as an adult you realize this. There's plenty of time for truth when you are mature, but the secret to a healthy childhood is innocence.
Most adults understand this, which is why they choose to hide the truth from children on many things, so that they can have a healthy childhood. Too much truth at an early age leads to kids growing up too quickly which leads to many problems when they become adults.
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