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written by Dep on 07.04. at 04:19:34 - as answer to: Re: Gettin' sneaky... by Seamless at >>I once broke into a dancewear store near my home. I wasn't particularly artful about it. I went to the back door and used my video store card to jimmy open the door. I was ready to run if an alarm went off but nothing happened. I was terrified. I walked in and gathered up an outfit from the racks and the tights bin. I couldn't find any ballet slippers in the dark so I took a pair of jazz shoes in my size. Now convinced that there must be some type of silent alarm, I hurriedly grabbed some dancewear catalogs and, after locking the door, ran to my car.>>That's really bad, I know, but it gets worse. Gripped by guilt and this sinking feeling that I'd set myself on course for a lifetime of criminal activity, I returned to the store that same night. I jimmied the door open once again and returned everything to its original place. Driving home in my car, I couldn't decide which was worse: the initial act of theft or the subsequent return of the dancewear goods. >>I've never done anything like that again but it was a quite wonderful, if slightly sickly, thrill.>-->From a karma perspective, you did the right thing. From the masochist perspective, you should have turned yourself in while also wearing one of the outfits you had stolen. ;-) From the opportunist point of view, you should have kept the goods, perfected your crime skills, and raided more stores to eventually end up in the papers as the "serial tights robber!". ;-D>On a serious note, purity of conscience is paramount. There is something I call "personal integrity". When you compromise it, you comprise yourself. And the more you do it, the easier it will become until you end up losing the most worthwhile part of your humanity. So, you did the right thing IMHO. Rest easy. And go out and buy yourself a pair of tights to celebrate! :-)>~Seamless~ >>>Exactly it! Whenever I'm tempted to do something not-so-cool (especially in a monetary sense,) I ask myself "Is my honor worth this?" And it never is...-Depon Answers to this message: 
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