Re: Middle classes on the fiddle

In message <5e9dfmF378ak5U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dr Zoidberg <alexNOOOOOO!!!!!!!@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Robin T Cox wrote:
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/6235988.stm

Published: 2007/06/25 03:55:47 GMT

More than six out of 10 people regularly commit crimes against the
government, their employers or businesses, research suggests.

I love the way they come up with "regularly" when they later say that it's
on "up to three occasions".

It's paraphrasing Arnold J Rimmer , but if someone nicks a ream of paper
from the stationery cupboard at work twice in their life , that doesn't mean
they regularly steal things - it's a rare , nay , freak occurrance.

It also doesn't surprise me that most people have done something of this
sort in their life. I know I have

Indeed. It can even be seen as a sort of quid pro quo. What's a few envelopes and pens when you've given countless hours of unpaid overtime? What's a slightly inflated insurance claim when there have been other occasions when you could have claimed but didn't? What's a bit of tax evasion when the government has wasted what they've taken off you in the past? What's ripping off a couple of CDs when you've been sold some utter rubbish in the past?

I'm not saying it's necessarily right, but I can understand the philosophy.

--
Norman Wells
NG
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