Getting Punished for Doing Good—BAD IDEA!
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009This sort of shit pisses me off to no end: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/05/bank.teller.stops.robber/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
If you’d remember what I written down on the remixed Nine Principles, I changed the idea of “If you do the crime you do the time” to a karmatic “Whatever you do, for good or for ill, comes back to you in kind.” If you do bad, bad things happen, evil is punished. I also added something I doubt Glenn thought of until he sees something like this: If you do good, you should be rewarded.
Seeing someone losing their job because they took the chance to stop a robber or shoplifter really raises my ire. It should be the topic I’d be watchdogging. That banker should be given a medal but now he’s getting unemployment checks and will be called a fucking worthless parasite by the very bank that employed him until recently. Those kind of businesses don’t get my business, and I’d love it if everyone in Key Bank in Seattle just cancels all their accounts in masse.
Just like I said, nothing can be more damning to a person than the thought that they might get in trouble for doing a good deed. Trouble by their employer, trouble in the courts, trouble by the police, it’s just wrong. Not only does it show that the world is run by an hyper-litigious cadre of lawyers that I doubt bleed red when you cut them, (They probably ooze out black tar while dragging you to court and ripping everything you’ve ever owned from you, including clothes and body hair, and quite possibly organs—God, I wish I was making this up.) but we already have societies in America where such a trend is the rule and not an exception: Connecticut. Where you can get run over by a speeder and people would just leave you to die. And maybe you’ll get lucky and some yackoff’ll snap a picture of your dying moments on their cell phone and post it to the tubes.
I ask you, if this the kind of world you’d want to be in? A world where if you help someone, you catch holy hell? Heck, I’d rather go on welfare then work for someone who fires their heroes instead of pinning metals on them to the applause of the people they saved. Company Policies be damned.
