ethics
How We Gonna Pay This Year's Rent?
After three years, I’m moving out of my awesome apartment. Probably. The rent is just too high. Management keeps raising the price higher and higher. They’ve raised it $340/month in the past three years. And I’m sorry but that’s just crazy. I asked the manager whether she’d be negotiable on rent, given that I’ve been such a good tenant these past three years, and she politely said no, citing the poor economy. Then, last week, she told me that she as going to be showing somebody my apartment today at 1:30. Now look, I’m not saying I purposely messed up my apartment to make it less attractive to the potential renter to thereby increase my bargaining position with management…but let’s just say I haven’t tidied up these past few days.
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Battery on Michigan Avenue
I was walking north on Michigan Avenue yesterday and I saw a boy, about ten, smack another boy, also about ten, on his butt. He hit the kid hard.
I assumed these two kids were friends—that they were just roughhousing. But then the mother of the boy who was hit cried out, “That kid just hit my son!” and the other boy just walked away with his two older friends.
It was probably a dare. Something stupid like that. And the kid who got hit was fine. He told me that much. But even if the kid was fine with what happened, I wasn’t; I was pissed.
Part of me wanted to chase the second kid down and reprimand him (I’ve done this on the streets of downtown Chicago before, after a cell phone theft). But part of me realized that this wasn’t my fight.
What would you have done in that situation?
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Premise 1: Lawyers are
Submitted by Michael (not verified) on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 11:33.
Premise 1: Lawyers are freaking sweet at negotiating and persuasion and can make an argument for pretty much anything.
Premise 2: Kids maliciously street-spanking is bad.
Premise 3: The more people who reprimand such situations, the greater the overall deterrence.
Premise 4: You should have been studying for the bar exam.
Premise 5: There are essay questions on the bar exam.
Sub-premise a: If you attempt an over the top persuasion and fail, no one grading your bar exam will know.
Sub-premise b: If you succeed at the correct persuasion, you can loop it into an essay question and contribute value to your answers as though you were studying.
Conclusion: Persuade the three kids to bend over in a circle and spank each other with giant law textbooks (can later be referenced metaphorically during bar exam).
Bonus 1: Future studying with those textbooks will be that much easier knowing the satisfaction they have already tasted justice.
Bonus 2: A YouTube video of your amazing persuasion would be the most impressive thing ever done, making you the #1 most in-demand lawyer regardless of whether you technically pass the bar.
Obviously, yell out "GOOD
Submitted by Dan Rosenthal (not verified) on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 16:00.
Obviously, yell out "GOOD GAME" as loud as you can.
Realistically, though, the army taught me that bullies and those who hurt the helpless only respond to violence. Nobody's at the top: there's always someone who can take you down. It's a humbling lesson that some people need to be taught. Once they learn it, that they're not the badass of the block, they begin to empathize with the people they have bullied in the past and generally change their ways.
Dan from Wikilaw (Which Lax calls the Video Game Blog heh)
wikilaw.blogspot.com
On what to do when you see a
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 16:04.
On what to do when you see a kid slug another kid and are considering being the deliverer of revenge--
This happened to me. I was 10. I saw a kid hit a smaller kid. To make a longer story shorter, I gave my neighbor Eli Pearlman a bloody nose and his father, a really good Cantor, came to my house and asked my mother what happened. I found out Eli was INNOCENT. What a lesson. Gather more facts before you slug someone. Good to know at any age.
I would probably have been
Submitted by Ryan (not verified) on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 16:23.
I would probably have been afraid of getting my butt slapped too, so I would have done nothing.
@Ryan wahahahaha so true.
Submitted by Michael (not verified) on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 11:47.
@Ryan wahahahaha so true.
But where will you go to
But where will you go to ignore the state-of-the-art gym and luxurious rooftop pool area?