With reference to the post below, reader Avinash wants to know if I am doing those things in that order.
My dear fellow, simultaneously. I am not working and gymming at the same time, but I am sleeping and doing everything else except gymming together. You see, gymming makes me tired and when I am tired, endorphins rush in to make me feel good and that leaves me in a happy and dreamlike state. So I am half asleep all the time except in the night, when I am fully asleep. As a result, I have completely lost the ability to take anything seriously. I am also unable to distinguish between dreams and reality.
For example, I recently dreamt that a newspaper found out that someone had made it a practice of taking photostat copies of every day’s paper with the credits and the masthead whitened away and sitting in the middle of a desert everyday and handing out free copies to anyone who wanted one. The only thing is, no one actually went to him because he was in the middle of a desert. The newspaper got so worked up about this that it published the name and address of the person and built a highway to the place where he sat, so that readers could go there and heap scorn on him and shame him into desisting. Crazy dream no?
Is that what we are all doing?
It also turns out that the guy got paid a little commision by the people selling the photocopiers, and so, of course, the newspapers get enraged.
So how close to the city does the fellow have to sit so that the newspapers are justified in getting worked about it? And is the severity of the crime dependent on how much benefit the criminal derives from it, or are some crimes wrong in themselves?
Today a guy in the desert, tomorrow, if the fellow is left alone, journalists from a big newspaper. Makes sense to make an example of this guy right here, so the priniciple of the thing becomes clear: If you steal, you shall be punished.
What would you rather have done?
is a crime more a crime because the criminal benefits out of it, or because the victim loses because of it?