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Originally Posted by YGOchamp
"Obviously"?
I'd love to hear why it's so blatantly obvious that it's "morally" wrong to steal from somebody who routinely steals from other people. I'm not saying it's not wrong, but to call it "obvious" is absurd.
From what I understand, he had a long history of being a known scammer prior to this, so for the sake of the conversation we'll assume that they knew of this before scamming him. (If they did not know, then it's obviously a slamdunk wrong thing to do).
I mean, first of all it's not like he scammed the scammer to make the victims whole. If that was the case, you might have a valid argument about scamming the scammer. It's also not like he saw the scammer coming to scam him, and scammed him first. In that case, you would have less of a valid argument morally - but still one to be made.
But even though he may have been dealing with NYPK when he scammed him, he got money from the player pool, which is really coming out of the money of other players - where they're getting cashouts from. That contributes to insolvency as someone noted.
It's like the difference in noticing the dealer under-raked a pot and keeping your mouth shut, and noticing that your opponent put in too many chips to pay off your bet and keeping your mouth shut. The first example is stealing from the casino, the second is stealing from another player. Most people don't have any problem with the first, but most people have a problem with the second.
This example is more like the second.
And I know stealing isn't the perfect word there, it's not like you reached into the rake box and literally stole chips. It's a passive act, and there are valid reasons for not speaking up - speaking up negatively effects your future bottom line because people become aware that you're a math whiz who knows how much money is in the pot, and you're that ******* who helped the casino make more money.