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| Topic | Vietnamese woman sentenced to death for $44 billion bank fraud |
| pretzelcoatl 04/20/24 8:47:39 PM #27: | Bugmeat posted... Does it though? These things are so much more than a simple money crime. So many lives are destroyed by this level of theft. Fraud on that scale ruins so many more lives than a guy who murders a few people. For example, how many elderly folks have had their retirement accounts plundered by this sort of fraud? Retirement accounts that they spent their lives building. The money they were counting on to survive their end game. It's the ordinary folks that suffer in the end. Only an evil person would do this. That deserves a death sentence.I'm personally not at all against the death penalty, just sort of skeptical that any government can mete it out impartial. But considering the scale and the impact to thousands and thousands of people, I don't really feel like I have any problem with it. In my personal opinion, if more CEOs feared real prosecution and real punishment for major crimes (not death penalty necessarily), my guess is that we might be doing better as a society ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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