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minus-squareTTH4P@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down19·19 hours agoI have to tag you as “temporarily embarrassed billionaire”. Sorry you don’t get the point I was trying to make.
minus-squareOldManBOMBIN@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·19 hours agoI know what you’re saying - no deed performed by a billionaire can be seen as good, because it was performed by a billionaire. But you’re wrong.
minus-squareTTH4P@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down10·edit-219 hours agoOk, let me engage you on this. If it’s a good deed performed with blood money, or with money earned on the backs of a genocide, or with money earned by ripping thousands of families off over and over for a long time, is it a good deed?
minus-squareOldManBOMBIN@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·edit-29 hours ago If it’s a good deed performed with blood money… In that question, you’ve proven my point. The deed is good even if the funds are not. The ends do not justify the means, but the means do not nullify the ends.
minus-squaretomi000@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·14 hours agoSo theres no need for me to donate my blood money as that would be a bad deed right? Good for me.
I have to tag you as “temporarily embarrassed billionaire”. Sorry you don’t get the point I was trying to make.
I know what you’re saying - no deed performed by a billionaire can be seen as good, because it was performed by a billionaire. But you’re wrong.
Ok, let me engage you on this. If it’s a good deed performed with blood money, or with money earned on the backs of a genocide, or with money earned by ripping thousands of families off over and over for a long time, is it a good deed?
In that question, you’ve proven my point.
The deed is good even if the funds are not. The ends do not justify the means, but the means do not nullify the ends.
Agree to disagree, old man.
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So theres no need for me to donate my blood money as that would be a bad deed right? Good for me.