Having followed this thread, and being a father of 4, I have to say this would be a poor way to teach my children to behave. What goes around comes around - teach them to abuse the system and where will they be in the future. Seems to smack of the entitlement attitude so prevalent in our society.
Whether you can justify the dishonesty by passing the buck on to others than yourself, it is still a character issue. Would you want to be treated this way? Would you want your loved ones to behave this way? I would hope not. If they had asked what happened, would you have told them the truth? And if you did, would you expect a refund? And if you wouldn't have expected a refund, why would you attempt to return it? Seems you would be going expecting to abuse the system, because you knew you could. Is this morally right? The very fact that justifications are needed to feel 'good' about it is telling. -- Bruce Thursday, May 20, 2010, 9:09:00 PM, you wrote: BL> On 5/21/2010 12:32 AM, John Sessoms wrote: >> Not at Best Buy... BL> That's kind of a horror story to me. To buy something in order to return BL> it and get some money in the process out of thin air, effectively... BL> OMG... *sigH* BL> Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
