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Re: Customs question...
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Date: 
Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:07:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
Jason, you may be "honesty impaired" -- the condition of engaging in
unseemly contortions just to be able to claim you were doing the "right
thing."

Is that how you define "honesty"? Or is that how you define "moral"? Is
honesty necessarily moral? If you ask me, if you're honest with respect to
putting the little "gift" mark on a package, then you *DON'T* mark it as a
gift no matter *WHAT* you think of the moral implications of the law that
you're breaking. If you're "honest", you tell the truth. And the truth is
that it's not a gift.

But the act of marking it as a gift might be a gift.  So what then?

Chris



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  Re: Customs question...
 
(...) Well, considering that the "gift" denotes the contents of the package (or so I would assume the "law" dictates), then no, not really... DaveE (23 years ago, 18-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Customs question...
 
(...) Is that how you define "honesty"? Or is that how you define "moral"? Is honesty necessarily moral? If you ask me, if you're honest with respect to putting the little "gift" mark on a package, then you *DON'T* mark it as a gift no matter *WHAT* (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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