I knew a kid who’d go door to door in neighborhoods requesting donations for the poor.
In his mind he was being honest because he was “the poor”
Should this be in unethical life pro tips
Submitted 11 months ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
undercrust@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
To be fair, this was the pre-existing model for GoFundMe. That kid could’ve been a millionaire if he dreamed bigger.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 11 months ago
can i start a gofundme just asking for money for no reason and see if anyone gives it to me
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Reminds me of the Human Fund and its slogan “money for people”.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Ah the classic Empty Pocket Society
Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So you accidentally learned the greatest lesson the church has to offer. Profit for salvation.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Also, religious fanatics are really gullible
Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Well…they are religious.
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Honestly. I think that’s what many of the nutjob protestors and “commentators” do. Why work a real job when you can be paid by suckers to jetset around the country/world spouting controversial views.
winterayars@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That’s basically what Fred Phelps and crew did.
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Since it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter heaven, relieving said rich man of their excess health is actually a kindness. Therefore this is an ethical life pro tip.
JCreazy@midwest.social 11 months ago
While everyone’s telling their stories. In middle school. My friend had a game shark book with game shark codes and he would write them all out and then sell them to kids that didn’t have a game shark.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Game shark, my god you brought me back. Shit, now you got me thinking about Game Genie too.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 11 months ago
Codebreaker for PS2 was my daily use cheat disc back then lol
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 months ago
First gameshark I had for my PS1 was a little brick that went into the serial port. Fucker didn’t work and I couldn’t return it for a refund. Some time later, I got a gameshark as a CD and that one worked wonders. Too bad it would crash if I saved too many extra codes into the memory card.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I did something similar when I was like 11. Went on a “canned food drive” around the neighborhood because it was summer and I was hungry.
To be fair, my family was poor and used services that actual drives would benefit, so I just cut out the middle man.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Full circle since I Rember reading that blink got started telling schools they wanted to play concerts in gymnasiums to spread a positive Christian message.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Brilliant looping going on, even betterer then banananana
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Is there actually any way literal grown adults fell for this
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Have you ever talked with fundamentalist? It’s not only plausible, but those adults have probably done the same thing while actually being serious about the preaching part in the concert
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yes.
Religious fanatics are that gullible, they do after all believe in really shittily written fairytales as if they’re real.
QTpi@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yes! I went to an evangelical church run private school. They had the brilliant idea to send good “strong Christian” students to raves and parties to narc on their classmates that attended said raves and parties. I wish I was making that up.
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Damn. I went to Jesus school from first grade all the way through high school. Doing something like that would have been a real quick way to get your ass kicked into a Jesus loving grease spot.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Depends on the town. Some of the ones in the Bible Belt? Absolutely possible. In others is completely possible they knew the kids were lying and decided it was fun to play along and get them to a concert.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’d be astounded if they didn’t.
iesou@lemm.ee 11 months ago
When I needed a job I went to church and asked them to pay that a job would come my way. Had 3 offers before I left
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
So much circle-jerking in this comments. This person is literally stealing but its fine if its from the “bad guys”.
TheLoneMinon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They’re grifting grifters. I see no problem.
abbotsbury@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How are people donating their own money grifters?
smeg@feddit.uk 11 months ago
This community isn’t called LemmySeriousDiscussionPost
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ChaoticGood
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 11 months ago
Well considering that this is 100% fake bullshit, it’s probably not even worth asking that question.
Emerald@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Image Transcription: Twitter Post
M. Lockwood Porter, @mlockwoodporter
My best friend and I wanted to go to a Blink 182 concert in high school but couldn’t afford tickets, so we told everyone in our extremely Baptist Oklahoma town that God called us to spread the gospel at an evil secular concert but we needed donations to get in. We turned a profit
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If I didn’t have ethics, I could con so many religious people…
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think about this sometimes I could go to school and build a career for myself, or I could make way twice the money in half the time doing shit like this.
Sometimes I hate that I have a sense of guilt. Life would be so much easier if I were a psychopath
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But psychopaths never feel love
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If it makes you feel any better, it’s probably hard to figure out when to get out. You’ll always feel like you can do just one more because the last one worked out so well, but each time you cash in, more people will see the truth and might want in on it until you find yourself in a situation where you can’t stop even if you wanted to because then the others who you are propping up will turn on you.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It is completely ethical to remove the funding power from those who would cause others to suffer.
Just sayin, you have options.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, but you’re not really conning the higher-ups, you’re conning the grannies who are going to church and giving away their social security money. And they really don’t deserve to be conned even if it would be easy to con them.
Blackout@kbin.social 11 months ago
If that is unethical then all of religion is unethical hey wait a second...
Thrashy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I long ago came to the conclusion that a slice of the American Dream is still out there to be had, as long as you don’t mind cutting it out of a bunch of suckers and rubes. Alas, my petty sense of morality is stopping me from joining the ranks of the wealthy elite, but at least I can sleep at night knowing my lifestyle isn’t directly financed by the misery of people I made a conscious choice to hurt.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s almost universally true at the multimillionaire and above level unless you inherited it all. You don’t get that rich without stepping on everyone you can to get there.
Elon Musk has ruined a ridiculous number of people on his way to the top and he continues to do it.
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Could easily rationalize it. Suckers are going to find a religion to con then no matter what. You could provide a less harmful option.
I’m not saying you should, but you could find a way to justify it. It’s pretty easy money.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t think a ‘less harmful’ con makes the con any more ethical. And I don’t want to take poor people’s money. A lot of people giving to televangelists are people living on social security and the like.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Conning religious people isn’t unethical /s?