No surprise - Clarence Thomas is completely corrupt

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Anonymous wrote:CT has spoken. Says he was advised that personal hospitality didn't need to be disclosed, but he will start to comply with the newly revised guidance that closes the personal hospitality loophole next year.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3939159-clarence-thomas-said-he-was-advised-he-didnt-have-to-disclose-trips-paid-for-by-gop-donor/

That’s BS. He WAS disclosing it earlier in his tenure but then he stopped.

He says 25 years. That would mean they weren't friends when he first joined the court.

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I think the PP who posted Heather Cox Richardson’s post had a Chris Murphy quote in it that Crow only sought out Thomas after he made it onto the court. Blatant corruption.

So in your view, there would've been no way for Thomas to form a genuine friendship and personal relationship with someone as rich as Crow?

Let's just assume these guys are soulmates. Thomas would love to just hang out with Crow at Walmarts and barbeques and whatnot but Crow has more exotic tastes. Thomas has no choice but to go along with these lavish accommodations. The alternative would be a painful, unendurable separation from his dear, dear friend. In that situation, Thomas should recuse himself from cases involving Crow, the companies from which he benefits, and the causes for which he advocates.

Gotcha, has anyone identified which cases Thomas should've recused himself from in which Crow had interests?

Another issue I have heard is spouses who work or associate with law firms that have Supreme Court practices that come before the courts. Should those Justices similarly recuse themselves?

Thomas should have just paid his own way. If he cannot afford to do that, he cannot afford to go (just like the vast majority of Americans)

Thanks. So you know about which cases or nah?

It doesn't matter. No federal employee should be accepting huge gifts from anybody. They should live off their salary.

Fully agree. How did the Bidens get so wealthy again?

He sold a lot of books: https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-book-sales-declined-during-his-first-year-in-office-11652483247

Yeah, that’s how he did it

If you don’t think so you can check his tax returns.
https://joebiden.com/financial-disclosure/#

You are your pesky facts.

It shows $9M from a company. Doesn’t show what that company paid him for. Access?

What company? Which return? Which year?

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Anonymous wrote:Newsflash: People - even Supreme Court Justices - are friends with and vacation with people who are like-minded. Some of them are even wealthy!!!
Shocker!!!

Vacationing with people who are likeminded is one thing. Having those friends pay every cent of your luxurious vacation is quite another. I don’t vacation on my friends’ dimes …. Particularly not to the tune of $500,000 a vacation.

Agree 100% I have never had any friend pay or subsidize my vacation expenses to Justice Corrupt's extent. Even when I am invited to a beach house, I make sure to bring an expensive bottle of wine and/or pay for dinner out at the beach. I would not even dream about accepting this sort of vacation. [And I certainly have plenty of friends in the top 1%.] Justice Thomas is simply corrupt.

How do you know he didn't reciprocate with gifts?

please be serious.

The op has unwittingly hit on why Thomas’s corruption is so rotting to the country. He did reciprocate - with decisions beneficial to Crow and the far right interests Crow represents.

That poster brought up an expensive bottle of wine, but yeah that's totally outside of the realm of possibility for CT to give to a friend.

If you don’t think the reciprocation calculus changes from some nobody (sorry, PP, you’re not a nobody, you’re just not on the SC) who has rich friends to the situation in which a SCJ has a friendship magically cultivated by a billionaire who just happens to be involved in all these groups who put court cases before the judge. #samesies

This dude is super rich. All of these expenses are chumps change to him.

When people are talking division of labor or expenses in the household, don't think like to calibrate it by percentage of income or available free time? Similar concept here. It's the the thought and effort brought to the friendship.

Was the justice taking random trips that Crow wasn't involved in and milking it like that? Seems like the travel expenses were in the interest of spending time together.

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Anonymous wrote:Newsflash: People - even Supreme Court Justices - are friends with and vacation with people who are like-minded. Some of them are even wealthy!!!
Shocker!!!

Vacationing with people who are likeminded is one thing. Having those friends pay every cent of your luxurious vacation is quite another. I don’t vacation on my friends’ dimes …. Particularly not to the tune of $500,000 a vacation.

Agree 100% I have never had any friend pay or subsidize my vacation expenses to Justice Corrupt's extent. Even when I am invited to a beach house, I make sure to bring an expensive bottle of wine and/or pay for dinner out at the beach. I would not even dream about accepting this sort of vacation. [And I certainly have plenty of friends in the top 1%.] Justice Thomas is simply corrupt.

How do you know he didn't reciprocate with gifts?

please be serious.

The op has unwittingly hit on why Thomas’s corruption is so rotting to the country. He did reciprocate - with decisions beneficial to Crow and the far right interests Crow represents.

That poster brought up an expensive bottle of wine, but yeah that's totally outside of the realm of possibility for CT to give to a friend.

If you don’t think the reciprocation calculus changes from some nobody (sorry, PP, you’re not a nobody, you’re just not on the SC) who has rich friends to the situation in which a SCJ has a friendship magically cultivated by a billionaire who just happens to be involved in all these groups who put court cases before the judge. #samesies

This dude is super rich. All of these expenses are chumps change to him.

When people are talking division of labor or expenses in the household, don't think like to calibrate it by percentage of income or available free time? Similar concept here. It's the the thought and effort brought to the friendship.

Was the justice taking random trips that Crow wasn't involved in and milking it like that? Seems like the travel expenses were in the interest of spending time together.

Congratulations, you’ve missed the point. Everyone knows these expenses are chump change to the billionaire. The expenses are NOT chump change to the equally corrupt chump on the bench though, thus guaranteeing Clarence’s obedience and favors in all rulings. And we already know that Clarence doesn’t recuse. He even presided over a case affecting his traitor wife (and since not a one of you RWNJs follows the news, she helped plan the insurrection. That makes her, literally, a traitor).

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Anonymous wrote:Newsflash: People - even Supreme Court Justices - are friends with and vacation with people who are like-minded. Some of them are even wealthy!!!
Shocker!!!

Vacationing with people who are likeminded is one thing. Having those friends pay every cent of your luxurious vacation is quite another. I don’t vacation on my friends’ dimes …. Particularly not to the tune of $500,000 a vacation.

Agree 100% I have never had any friend pay or subsidize my vacation expenses to Justice Corrupt's extent. Even when I am invited to a beach house, I make sure to bring an expensive bottle of wine and/or pay for dinner out at the beach. I would not even dream about accepting this sort of vacation. [And I certainly have plenty of friends in the top 1%.] Justice Thomas is simply corrupt.

How do you know he didn't reciprocate with gifts?

please be serious.

The op has unwittingly hit on why Thomas’s corruption is so rotting to the country. He did reciprocate - with decisions beneficial to Crow and the far right interests Crow represents.

That poster brought up an expensive bottle of wine, but yeah that's totally outside of the realm of possibility for CT to give to a friend.

If you don’t think the reciprocation calculus changes from some nobody (sorry, PP, you’re not a nobody, you’re just not on the SC) who has rich friends to the situation in which a SCJ has a friendship magically cultivated by a billionaire who just happens to be involved in all these groups who put court cases before the judge. #samesies

This dude is super rich. All of these expenses are chumps change to him.

When people are talking division of labor or expenses in the household, don't think like to calibrate it by percentage of income or available free time? Similar concept here. It's the the thought and effort brought to the friendship.

Was the justice taking random trips that Crow wasn't involved in and milking it like that? Seems like the travel expenses were in the interest of spending time together.

Congratulations, you’ve missed the point. Everyone knows these expenses are chump change to the billionaire. The expenses are NOT chump change to the equally corrupt chump on the bench though, thus guaranteeing Clarence’s obedience and favors in all rulings. And we already know that Clarence doesn’t recuse. He even presided over a case affecting his traitor wife (and since not a one of you RWNJs follows the news, she helped plan the insurrection. That makes her, literally, a traitor).

Whoosh. You've just devalued the low paying job wife's contribution to the house because her time isn't "worth as much" as her Managing Director husband.

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This is the guy Clarence is getting all the free stuff from.

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This is the guy Clarence is getting all the free stuff from.

OMG, no way!

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/ancient-romans-built-statues-enemy/

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And then the GOP here get ansty when people call him an Uncle Tom.

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Anonymous wrote:And then the GOP here get ansty when people call him an Uncle Tom.

Your racism is showing.

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Anonymous wrote:Newsflash: People - even Supreme Court Justices - are friends with and vacation with people who are like-minded. Some of them are even wealthy!!!
Shocker!!!

Vacationing with people who are likeminded is one thing. Having those friends pay every cent of your luxurious vacation is quite another. I don’t vacation on my friends’ dimes …. Particularly not to the tune of $500,000 a vacation.

Agree 100% I have never had any friend pay or subsidize my vacation expenses to Justice Corrupt's extent. Even when I am invited to a beach house, I make sure to bring an expensive bottle of wine and/or pay for dinner out at the beach. I would not even dream about accepting this sort of vacation. [And I certainly have plenty of friends in the top 1%.] Justice Thomas is simply corrupt.

How do you know he didn't reciprocate with gifts?

please be serious.

The op has unwittingly hit on why Thomas’s corruption is so rotting to the country. He did reciprocate - with decisions beneficial to Crow and the far right interests Crow represents.

That poster brought up an expensive bottle of wine, but yeah that's totally outside of the realm of possibility for CT to give to a friend.

If you don’t think the reciprocation calculus changes from some nobody (sorry, PP, you’re not a nobody, you’re just not on the SC) who has rich friends to the situation in which a SCJ has a friendship magically cultivated by a billionaire who just happens to be involved in all these groups who put court cases before the judge. #samesies

This dude is super rich. All of these expenses are chumps change to him.

When people are talking division of labor or expenses in the household, don't think like to calibrate it by percentage of income or available free time? Similar concept here. It's the the thought and effort brought to the friendship.

Was the justice taking random trips that Crow wasn't involved in and milking it like that? Seems like the travel expenses were in the interest of spending time together.

Congratulations, you’ve missed the point. Everyone knows these expenses are chump change to the billionaire. The expenses are NOT chump change to the equally corrupt chump on the bench though, thus guaranteeing Clarence’s obedience and favors in all rulings. And we already know that Clarence doesn’t recuse. He even presided over a case affecting his traitor wife (and since not a one of you RWNJs follows the news, she helped plan the insurrection. That makes her, literally, a traitor).

Whoosh. You've just devalued the low paying job wife's contribution to the house because her time isn't "worth as much" as her Managing Director husband.

Lol. No, I haven’t, and if that’s the issue upon which your argument hinges… yikes.

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Anonymous wrote:Newsflash: People - even Supreme Court Justices - are friends with and vacation with people who are like-minded. Some of them are even wealthy!!!
Shocker!!!

Vacationing with people who are likeminded is one thing. Having those friends pay every cent of your luxurious vacation is quite another. I don’t vacation on my friends’ dimes …. Particularly not to the tune of $500,000 a vacation.

Agree 100% I have never had any friend pay or subsidize my vacation expenses to Justice Corrupt's extent. Even when I am invited to a beach house, I make sure to bring an expensive bottle of wine and/or pay for dinner out at the beach. I would not even dream about accepting this sort of vacation. [And I certainly have plenty of friends in the top 1%.] Justice Thomas is simply corrupt.

How do you know he didn't reciprocate with gifts?

please be serious.

The op has unwittingly hit on why Thomas’s corruption is so rotting to the country. He did reciprocate - with decisions beneficial to Crow and the far right interests Crow represents.

That poster brought up an expensive bottle of wine, but yeah that's totally outside of the realm of possibility for CT to give to a friend.

If you don’t think the reciprocation calculus changes from some nobody (sorry, PP, you’re not a nobody, you’re just not on the SC) who has rich friends to the situation in which a SCJ has a friendship magically cultivated by a billionaire who just happens to be involved in all these groups who put court cases before the judge. #samesies

This dude is super rich. All of these expenses are chumps change to him.

When people are talking division of labor or expenses in the household, don't think like to calibrate it by percentage of income or available free time? Similar concept here. It's the the thought and effort brought to the friendship.

Was the justice taking random trips that Crow wasn't involved in and milking it like that? Seems like the travel expenses were in the interest of spending time together.

Congratulations, you’ve missed the point. Everyone knows these expenses are chump change to the billionaire. The expenses are NOT chump change to the equally corrupt chump on the bench though, thus guaranteeing Clarence’s obedience and favors in all rulings. And we already know that Clarence doesn’t recuse. He even presided over a case affecting his traitor wife (and since not a one of you RWNJs follows the news, she helped plan the insurrection. That makes her, literally, a traitor).

Whoosh. You've just devalued the low paying job wife's contribution to the house because her time isn't "worth as much" as her Managing Director husband.

Lol. No, I haven’t, and if that’s the issue upon which your argument hinges… yikes.

Whoosh!

Reciprocal exchange of gifts commensurate with financial wherewithal to furnish such gifts = indicia of genuine personal friendship.

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Anonymous wrote:Newsflash: People - even Supreme Court Justices - are friends with and vacation with people who are like-minded. Some of them are even wealthy!!!
Shocker!!!

Vacationing with people who are likeminded is one thing. Having those friends pay every cent of your luxurious vacation is quite another. I don’t vacation on my friends’ dimes …. Particularly not to the tune of $500,000 a vacation.

Agree 100% I have never had any friend pay or subsidize my vacation expenses to Justice Corrupt's extent. Even when I am invited to a beach house, I make sure to bring an expensive bottle of wine and/or pay for dinner out at the beach. I would not even dream about accepting this sort of vacation. [And I certainly have plenty of friends in the top 1%.] Justice Thomas is simply corrupt.

How do you know he didn't reciprocate with gifts?

please be serious.

The op has unwittingly hit on why Thomas’s corruption is so rotting to the country. He did reciprocate - with decisions beneficial to Crow and the far right interests Crow represents.

That poster brought up an expensive bottle of wine, but yeah that's totally outside of the realm of possibility for CT to give to a friend.

If you don’t think the reciprocation calculus changes from some nobody (sorry, PP, you’re not a nobody, you’re just not on the SC) who has rich friends to the situation in which a SCJ has a friendship magically cultivated by a billionaire who just happens to be involved in all these groups who put court cases before the judge. #samesies

This dude is super rich. All of these expenses are chumps change to him.

When people are talking division of labor or expenses in the household, don't think like to calibrate it by percentage of income or available free time? Similar concept here. It's the the thought and effort brought to the friendship.

Was the justice taking random trips that Crow wasn't involved in and milking it like that? Seems like the travel expenses were in the interest of spending time together.

Congratulations, you’ve missed the point. Everyone knows these expenses are chump change to the billionaire. The expenses are NOT chump change to the equally corrupt chump on the bench though, thus guaranteeing Clarence’s obedience and favors in all rulings. And we already know that Clarence doesn’t recuse. He even presided over a case affecting his traitor wife (and since not a one of you RWNJs follows the news, she helped plan the insurrection. That makes her, literally, a traitor).

Whoosh. You've just devalued the low paying job wife's contribution to the house because her time isn't "worth as much" as her Managing Director husband.

Lol. No, I haven’t, and if that’s the issue upon which your argument hinges… yikes.

Whoosh!

Reciprocal exchange of gifts commensurate with financial wherewithal to furnish such gifts = indicia of genuine personal friendship.

You can make as many noises as you wish; you’re still missing the point.

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Anonymous wrote:Newsflash: People - even Supreme Court Justices - are friends with and vacation with people who are like-minded. Some of them are even wealthy!!!
Shocker!!!

Vacationing with people who are likeminded is one thing. Having those friends pay every cent of your luxurious vacation is quite another. I don’t vacation on my friends’ dimes …. Particularly not to the tune of $500,000 a vacation.

Agree 100% I have never had any friend pay or subsidize my vacation expenses to Justice Corrupt's extent. Even when I am invited to a beach house, I make sure to bring an expensive bottle of wine and/or pay for dinner out at the beach. I would not even dream about accepting this sort of vacation. [And I certainly have plenty of friends in the top 1%.] Justice Thomas is simply corrupt.

How do you know he didn't reciprocate with gifts?

please be serious.

The op has unwittingly hit on why Thomas’s corruption is so rotting to the country. He did reciprocate - with decisions beneficial to Crow and the far right interests Crow represents.

That poster brought up an expensive bottle of wine, but yeah that's totally outside of the realm of possibility for CT to give to a friend.

If you don’t think the reciprocation calculus changes from some nobody (sorry, PP, you’re not a nobody, you’re just not on the SC) who has rich friends to the situation in which a SCJ has a friendship magically cultivated by a billionaire who just happens to be involved in all these groups who put court cases before the judge. #samesies

This dude is super rich. All of these expenses are chumps change to him.

When people are talking division of labor or expenses in the household, don't think like to calibrate it by percentage of income or available free time? Similar concept here. It's the the thought and effort brought to the friendship.

Was the justice taking random trips that Crow wasn't involved in and milking it like that? Seems like the travel expenses were in the interest of spending time together.

Congratulations, you’ve missed the point. Everyone knows these expenses are chump change to the billionaire. The expenses are NOT chump change to the equally corrupt chump on the bench though, thus guaranteeing Clarence’s obedience and favors in all rulings. And we already know that Clarence doesn’t recuse. He even presided over a case affecting his traitor wife (and since not a one of you RWNJs follows the news, she helped plan the insurrection. That makes her, literally, a traitor).

Whoosh. You've just devalued the low paying job wife's contribution to the house because her time isn't "worth as much" as her Managing Director husband.

Lol. No, I haven’t, and if that’s the issue upon which your argument hinges… yikes.

Whoosh!

Reciprocal exchange of gifts commensurate with financial wherewithal to furnish such gifts = indicia of genuine personal friendship.

You can make as many noises as you wish; you’re still missing the point.

You can keep repeating that as many times as you wish, you're still missing the point.

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Anonymous wrote:Newsflash: People - even Supreme Court Justices - are friends with and vacation with people who are like-minded. Some of them are even wealthy!!!
Shocker!!!

Vacationing with people who are likeminded is one thing. Having those friends pay every cent of your luxurious vacation is quite another. I don’t vacation on my friends’ dimes …. Particularly not to the tune of $500,000 a vacation.

Agree 100% I have never had any friend pay or subsidize my vacation expenses to Justice Corrupt's extent. Even when I am invited to a beach house, I make sure to bring an expensive bottle of wine and/or pay for dinner out at the beach. I would not even dream about accepting this sort of vacation. [And I certainly have plenty of friends in the top 1%.] Justice Thomas is simply corrupt.

How do you know he didn't reciprocate with gifts?

please be serious.

The op has unwittingly hit on why Thomas’s corruption is so rotting to the country. He did reciprocate - with decisions beneficial to Crow and the far right interests Crow represents.

That poster brought up an expensive bottle of wine, but yeah that's totally outside of the realm of possibility for CT to give to a friend.

If you don’t think the reciprocation calculus changes from some nobody (sorry, PP, you’re not a nobody, you’re just not on the SC) who has rich friends to the situation in which a SCJ has a friendship magically cultivated by a billionaire who just happens to be involved in all these groups who put court cases before the judge. #samesies

This dude is super rich. All of these expenses are chumps change to him.

When people are talking division of labor or expenses in the household, don't think like to calibrate it by percentage of income or available free time? Similar concept here. It's the the thought and effort brought to the friendship.

Was the justice taking random trips that Crow wasn't involved in and milking it like that? Seems like the travel expenses were in the interest of spending time together.

Congratulations, you’ve missed the point. Everyone knows these expenses are chump change to the billionaire. The expenses are NOT chump change to the equally corrupt chump on the bench though, thus guaranteeing Clarence’s obedience and favors in all rulings. And we already know that Clarence doesn’t recuse. He even presided over a case affecting his traitor wife (and since not a one of you RWNJs follows the news, she helped plan the insurrection. That makes her, literally, a traitor).

Whoosh. You've just devalued the low paying job wife's contribution to the house because her time isn't "worth as much" as her Managing Director husband.

Lol. No, I haven’t, and if that’s the issue upon which your argument hinges… yikes.

Whoosh!

Reciprocal exchange of gifts commensurate with financial wherewithal to furnish such gifts = indicia of genuine personal friendship.

You can make as many noises as you wish; you’re still missing the point.

And the friendship started 5?years after CT was on Supreme Court so boundaries should have been in place from beginning.

He did report the gifts early on until they were reported in and then he stopped doing so.

Gifts worth well over $1 million and by someone with vested official interest in matters before the SC are clearly a major violation of ethics to any reasonable person.

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Anonymous wrote:Newsflash: People - even Supreme Court Justices - are friends with and vacation with people who are like-minded. Some of them are even wealthy!!!
Shocker!!!

Vacationing with people who are likeminded is one thing. Having those friends pay every cent of your luxurious vacation is quite another. I don’t vacation on my friends’ dimes …. Particularly not to the tune of $500,000 a vacation.

Agree 100% I have never had any friend pay or subsidize my vacation expenses to Justice Corrupt's extent. Even when I am invited to a beach house, I make sure to bring an expensive bottle of wine and/or pay for dinner out at the beach. I would not even dream about accepting this sort of vacation. [And I certainly have plenty of friends in the top 1%.] Justice Thomas is simply corrupt.

How do you know he didn't reciprocate with gifts?

please be serious.

The op has unwittingly hit on why Thomas’s corruption is so rotting to the country. He did reciprocate - with decisions beneficial to Crow and the far right interests Crow represents.

That poster brought up an expensive bottle of wine, but yeah that's totally outside of the realm of possibility for CT to give to a friend.

If you don’t think the reciprocation calculus changes from some nobody (sorry, PP, you’re not a nobody, you’re just not on the SC) who has rich friends to the situation in which a SCJ has a friendship magically cultivated by a billionaire who just happens to be involved in all these groups who put court cases before the judge. #samesies

This dude is super rich. All of these expenses are chumps change to him.

When people are talking division of labor or expenses in the household, don't think like to calibrate it by percentage of income or available free time? Similar concept here. It's the the thought and effort brought to the friendship.

Was the justice taking random trips that Crow wasn't involved in and milking it like that? Seems like the travel expenses were in the interest of spending time together.

Congratulations, you’ve missed the point. Everyone knows these expenses are chump change to the billionaire. The expenses are NOT chump change to the equally corrupt chump on the bench though, thus guaranteeing Clarence’s obedience and favors in all rulings. And we already know that Clarence doesn’t recuse. He even presided over a case affecting his traitor wife (and since not a one of you RWNJs follows the news, she helped plan the insurrection. That makes her, literally, a traitor).

Whoosh. You've just devalued the low paying job wife's contribution to the house because her time isn't "worth as much" as her Managing Director husband.

Lol. No, I haven’t, and if that’s the issue upon which your argument hinges… yikes.

Whoosh!

Reciprocal exchange of gifts commensurate with financial wherewithal to furnish such gifts = indicia of genuine personal friendship.

You can make as many noises as you wish; you’re still missing the point.

And the friendship started 5?years after CT was on Supreme Court so boundaries should have been in place from beginning.

He did report the gifts early on until they were reported in and then he stopped doing so.

Gifts worth well over $1 million and by someone with vested official interest in matters before the SC are clearly a major violation of ethics to any reasonable person.

They are. And his ethics violations are especially egregious given the very severe strictures within with regular government employees (and even “irregular” government like the President and his appointees) are supposed to operate.

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I am going to wait until all the facts come out. Not so sure he has a real legal issue. Moral issue anotehr story.