Thursday, December 3, 2020

Things That Are Immoral But Not Quite Illegal


Just because it's easy to recognize something as completely morally wrong doesn't necessarily mean it's against the rules. It seems kid of backwards, but sometimes there's stuff that's too small, specific, or unfortunately profitable for people to make a rule against it. For some spicy tales, here are things people later discovered were illegal.

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Text - plankto-ed 6.6k points · 19 hours ago 3 e S Unplugging your friends phone to charge your own when visiting their house

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Text - DarkPasta 3.3k points · 18 hours ago Listing to "music" on your phone on speaker while people are around you. On the bus, for example. You should be taken to a wood thicket and swiftly shot.

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Text - Shermione 2.7k points · 17 hours ago Leaving meat or dairy on some random unrefrigerated shelf in the grocery store. Fuck you!! RedditFact-Checker 601 points · 16 hours ago Generally, you can go to a grocery store, fill a cart with whatever you want, then just leave. Sucks, but certainly not against the law.

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Text - sh4w5h4nk 2.3k points - 19 hours ago 2 Gambling away the money your spouse set aside for your child's college.

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Text - diiejso 1.5k points · 19 hours ago Private equity firms that buyout existing and sustainable companies only to leverage them with as much debt as possible, bankrupt them, and sell off the assets leaving all the employees out of work, communities unserved, and themselves with massive profit.

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Text - start3ch 4.3k points · 14 hours ago 3 2 Making researchers pay to have their work published, charging fees to anyone who wants to view the work, and not giving anything back to the researchers

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Text - bonster85 1.5k points · 19 hours ago MLM schemes. My mum got sucked into forever living. It's pretty much an aloe vera cult. USSThunderMufin 148 points · 18 hours ago What is that 1 bonster85 553 points · 18 hours ago · edited 18 hours ago Mlm's are multi level marketing schemes. So basically you start selling their aloe vera products as a way to make extra money. So you use your social media to promote it, then once you've started a following and you have a customer base, your friends st

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Text - Printnamehere3 1.2k points · 20 hours ago Not returning your shopping cart to the corral

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Text - TheDassaultRafale 4.9k points · 18 hours ago O A O & 5 More Those beauty pageant shows for children. It should be illegal.

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Text - shaodyn 9 points · 11 hours ago Planned obsolescence. For anyone who don't know, this is designing a product, usually some sort of electronic device, so that it'll break down or otherwise become useless much earlier than it reasonably should, requiring an expensive replacement.

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Text - AnErasedCitizen 1.2k points · 19 hours ago Paying someone below min wage and having them make it up with tips. eithernight 296 points · 18 hours ago Yea I worked a job through high school and some of college where I made $2.13 an hour which is legal. If we didn't make enough in tips to meet minimum wage they would yell at us and threaten to fire us because they didn't want to pay out extra. Some of my coworkers over reported their tips because they were afraid of losing their jobs and cam

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Text - twisteroo22 1.2k points · 11 hours ago Making people pay to park at a hospital. So tacky.

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Text - cpeery7 e 1.1k points · 13 hours ago Insane hospital prices. No one knows how much they charge for stuff. For all we know, they could just be making up numbers until your bill reaches an insane amount.

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Text - selcouthsiren 981 points · 18 hours ago · edited 18 hours ago Since the holidays are approaching, getting a dog or other pet as a surprise Christmas present for your child, only to give it away when you realize you're not equipped to care for it.

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Text - CYBERSson 741 points · 18 hours ago Watching the next episode in the series without your watching partner

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Text - helga_von_schnitzel 490 points · 17 hours ago edited 6 hours ago Driving around town with your remote, changing peoples channels.

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Text - SleepyConscience 370 points · 19 hours ago Loaning money to desperate people at insane interest rates through payday loans. My mom was stuck in a payday loan cycle for basically all of my high school years. I honestly don't resent the people who own those places that much. You gotta do what you gotta do to survive in this miserable country. It's the politicians who allow that shit to be legal that really piss me off. They're the ones making the moral choice.

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Text - livestardustpuppet 94 points · 18 hours ago Buying something to use it once and then returning it.

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Text - Evening_Store 51 points · 17 hours ago Farting and then blaming it on your dog, your cat, your kids, your partner, your neighbors, your coworkers, your boss, random strangers, other people in the elevator, other mourners at the funeral, the deceased, your invisible friend Farty Fartalotamus et al.

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Text - Starrydecises 26 points · 13 hours ago Dragging out litigation until the other side runs out of money.

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