morality with my comedy louis here's the scenario for this week you run orphanage
okay you having hard time making ends meet a car dealership contacts you and
says listen
we've got a fifteen thousand dollar van
will give it to you for free okay so you'll have this van to drive around the
the kids from the orphanage the thing is we need you to falsely reported as a
thirty thousand dollar ban on your taxes so that we get a deduction for the
thirty thousand dollars instead of fifteen thousand you really need the
band ill give you an opportunity did make the children happier bring them to
different places do you agree to take the van
and lie on your taxes what do you do
um...
yet but probably live out on the tax unity but you do you think it's a degree
did it
are definitely a
net on what you think on this one would you have lied and tell the dealership
sure also thirty thousand dollars that's exactly right even though it's not worth
that to get this van
uh... i mean why why wouldn't you want a line your taxes
if the greater good is there
well because it's illegal and you can go to jail
by under dot
are asking to go after you
in such a scenario okay but does that make it the right decision morally in
other words is it still the greater good because you might not get caught that's
like saying well
all steel bread to feed my family which lewis has said he would do which i said
anyone would do any word to you
is it morally better
if it's unlikely you'll get caught yeah it's unlikely the i_r_s_ will really
look into every single car donation specific value
but you're breaking the law and it's not it's not actually ethical a rather well
i guess i'm asking you whether it is ethical in the sense that
you're helping these kids
you're still breaking the law go
if there are less likely that your car doesn't make a difference
uh... right
still i i would do it you don't care i'm fine with a yeah yeah i think that i
thought we would sit
i have to say i think i would still be even though
fire um...
finance care of those i_r_s_ arts
it really seems like
the equivalent the financial equivalent of like a body cavity searched
a full the body cavity searched even more they raise their hand when i get
off limits yes uh... yeah
the real question is whether you would do it if later on in your life you're
planning on staying running for office
okay let's say that louis later in your life you're planning on running for
office which he still lying on the taxes for the donation
because someone will turn it up but if you're unlikely to be caught
then why would it make a difference
because when you run for office and you have a chance
everything that startup
what it what what it would that change it for units on
i don't know i mean
in this particular case uh...
it might actually be good anymore in people might actually like the
sympathize with you gary that you wrote the rules for a good ka you come out
there and you say
one day
i admit i reported a fifteen thousand dollar van that was donated as a thirty
thousand dollar van
it was the wrong decision
however
it was the right decision in so many ways because of all those children those
children that are lies docking about all her uh... our children on the twenty
three dot further foster children how otherwise thousand adopted children
those children would not have been able to get to where they need to go they
would have not been playing in those parts
they would not have been learning to ride their bikes
and they would not have been out there
loaning
to play death metal
every single weekend and that is an experience that is invaluable
every child that was ever coming through our program at the time so i stand
behind it and i would do it again today
because i love america and i love children not and children are america
children are futures michael jackson would have sent in
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