Comment on Anon comes out to his religious parents
dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoNo, the option I’m thinking of is lie to the parents and don’t keep the money. Either donate it to victims of “real” therapy or give it all to the kid at least. As it stands, he scammed the family out of the $700. The good deed of saving the kid doesn’t cancel it out.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Donating stolen money doesn’t make the money not stolen.
And the guy did spend time with the kid, an hour a week for 10 weeks, plus expenses (Xbox games, snacks, etc). So he was absolutely providing a service for the kid, it just wasn’t the service the parents expected. I don’t see any reason for the guy to not expect some form of compensation for that.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I think taking the money was in a good cause, but keeping it wasn’t. But I agree he deserves some compensation.