Should this be in unethical life pro tips

Striker@lemmy.worldmod to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 1290 points –
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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.

They're going to be conned. Might as well be by someone who can help them with that money.

Argumentum ad lgnorantiam

Argumentum ad pessimism, actually

Can you explain what that means, and what the other guy said please?

He called me an idiot. I said no, I'm a pessimist

My intention wasn't to call you an idiot (which me misusing that Latin phrase would make ME the idiot lol), it was to point out the "If I don't do it someone else will" moral justification / fallacy that a lot of people, such as drug dealers for example, use to skirt the moral responsibility of their actions.