Re: Polanski

MM wrote:

Scenario A: You steal someone's dinner money at school. The other
pupils all know you did it. However, you flee the classroom and the
school and are never seen again.

Scenario B: You steal someone's dinner money at school. The other
pupils all know you did it. You own up and plead guilty, knowing that
in so doing you will get six of the best. The class is angry that you
stole the money, but grudgingly respects you for owning up.

Who do you think the other pupils will respect more, the boy in
scenario A or the boy in scenario B?

You've already given _your_ answer in the question.

However, the boy in A is undoubtedly the more successful in his chosen path having got the money with no downside. If respect is given for success, then it should clearly go to boy A.

Mind you, respect only matters if it matters to you, and it doesn't to everyone.


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