Thread: The Ethics of Ripping Off Newagers

Originally Posted by Jeff777

On an off-topic (but still somewhat relevant) note.. there's this guy I heard of in California who teaches women in workshops how to perform blowjobs on their husbands 10x better than what they're used to. The workshop costs 1500 bucks for a weekend worth of lessons and the final day involves actual practice.. on him. Genius.

He gets extra points if the husbands pay for it.

For serious?

That's a living.... The best part is that it's not like you have to learn anything, any blow job is good lol

Kinda off topic but... My dad just fell for a business scam a few minutes ago and was ripped 25 bucks. He still believes it will work. Anyone can make up something, sell it to suckers, and make a fortune.

Shocking enough, my parents believe in the teachings of one of the most cunning con artists ever, Sylvia Browne. Made her own form of spirituality, published several NYT bestsellers, sells psychic readings to people on the internet for hundreds of dollars, and appears on the Montel show occasionally to gain rep. Somehow she still gains support, as she is on police databases convicted of grand theft and investment fraud, and most of her readings ended up incorrect, even though she claims she is right 85% of the time.

Originally Posted by tommo

For serious?

That's a living.... The best part is that it's not like you have to learn anything, any blow job is good lol

Reminds me of a great t-shirt that I saw at a pizza shop.

Sex is like pizza

When it's good, it's great.

When it's bad, it's still pretty good.

I almost had to buy it but it was so poorly made, I could make a better one myself.

Originally Posted by stonedape

Reminds me of a great t-shirt that I saw at a pizza shop.

Sex is like pizza

When it's good, it's great.

When it's bad, it's still pretty good.

I almost had to buy it but it was so poorly made, I could make a better one myself.

HAHA that's great! Funny too coz I am looking for a pizza delivery job right now lol

This is reminding me of these so called "power bracelets" or whatever they are called, that give off... "natural frequencies" that work with your body to make you stronger and live longer and give you balance. They actually say these things in their commercials and I can't believe they are getting away with ripping people off.

The thing is, it's like 30 bucks or something. So it's not gonna put anyone into any major debt. Things like massive financial fraud are just wrong. Like the banks and their re-financing fiasco.

Originally Posted by louie54

This is reminding me of these so called "power bracelets" or whatever they are called, that give off... "natural frequencies" that work with your body to make you stronger and live longer and give you balance. They actually say these things in their commercials and I can't believe they are getting away with ripping people off.

Official home of the Q-Ray bracelet.

Some of the England cricket team wear those 'balance bracelet' things. I think I screamed for an hour when I found out.

Professional athletes are model humans from below the neck.

Originally Posted by louie54

This is reminding me of these so called "power bracelets" or whatever they are called, that give off... "natural frequencies" that work with your body to make you stronger and live longer and give you balance. They actually say these things in their commercials and I can't believe they are getting away with ripping people off.

Reminds me of that super high fucking expensive Kabbalist water that Hollywood celebs like Ashton Kutcher and Madonna are going crazy over. At 8 bucks a pop (or to be more precise.. 16.9 fluid ounces) you too can consume water blessed by kabbalists monks!

When it comes to what I'm willing to cash out on, my general view is that as long as you're ripping off "rich stupid people" then you're fine. However, the new age stuff CAN be harmful. Like homeopathy, for example. There's nothing wrong with the placebo effect making that headache or fatigue go away. I'm a big fan of harnessing that. However, when people with serious illness forego a simple procedure that might actually save them real quick (like having a tumor removed), in favour of some horseshit "crystal vibration therapy" type thing, and they die, that's really, really sad. And so I voted to leave the poor saps alone.

Originally Posted by Aquanina

Official home of the Q-Ray bracelet.

You have GOT to be kidding...

Originally Posted by Jeff777

Reminds me of that super high fucking expensive Kabbalist water that Hollywood celebs like Ashton Kutcher and Madonna are going crazy over. At 8 bucks a pop (or to be more precise.. 16.9 fluid ounces) you too can consume water blessed by kabbalists monks!

Those poor souls

Originally Posted by Replicon

When it comes to what I'm willing to cash out on, my general view is that as long as you're ripping off "rich stupid people" then you're fine. However, the new age stuff CAN be harmful. Like homeopathy, for example. There's nothing wrong with the placebo effect making that headache or fatigue go away. I'm a big fan of harnessing that. However, when people with serious illness forego a simple procedure that might actually save them real quick (like having a tumor removed), in favour of some horseshit "crystal vibration therapy" type thing, and they die, that's really, really sad. And so I voted to leave the poor saps alone.

That pretty much sums it up. Steal from rich people not from poor people.

Modern day Robin Hoods.

Robin Hoods only if they distribute the cash between the poor later...

A lot of people who believe in quackeries are unintelligent and poor...

Personally, I believe being disingenuous is always unethical to a degree proportional to the disingenuous-ness. This would be similar to saying that the banks that precipitated the 2008 crash in our economy by selling variable rate mortgages to people clearly unqualified to take on that level of debt responsibility were not at fault, and those people should have known that they wouldn't be able to pay. It may be true that they should have known, but placing the blame on the victims kind of misses the point.

I posted this years ago in the forums but this thread makes it relevant again.. this guy charges 500 bucks for phone counseling/advice from the "E.T." he allegedly channels.

Originally Posted by dajo

Robin Hoods only if they distribute the cash between the poor later...

Or if the con man is poor, then that counts too.

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

Personally, I believe being disingenuous is always unethical to a degree proportional to the disingenuous-ness. This would be similar to saying that the banks that precipitated the 2008 crash in our economy by selling variable rate mortgages to people clearly unqualified to take on that level of debt responsibility were not at fault, and those people should have known that they wouldn't be able to pay. It may be true that they should have known, but placing the blame on the victims kind of misses the point.

Don't you know that rich people are infallible?
Some guy did the exact same thing as the banks, he went around pretending to be a christian and went to old people's houses who were christian too. He faces life imprisonment now.

Ethical, no. Would I do it, yes. In my opinion if someone is stupid enough to fall for stupid shit, they deserve to be ripped off. They'll learn, eventually.

They deserve to be ripped off, but it wouldn't be ethical to rip them off?

Who needs ethics .