In Defense of Scrooge (and Old Man Potter)

Posted by $ bigjim 12 years, 4 months ago to Entertainment
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"Scrooge an economic hero, defenders say"
from CBC News

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  • Posted by flanap 12 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have this trouble with why we can say that simply not returning something lost to those whom you know misplaced it is wrong? On what basis? I don't see where the other person's free will was coerced by such a withholding of property? Shouldn't they have taken precautions to prevent such a loss? Isn't calling this wrong simply arbitrary and boils down to a battle of who can reason the best?

    Thoughts?
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  • Posted by flanap 12 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oh...I should have indicated with clarity that the fishing classes would come at a premium on their interest rate, or via a separate fee schedule which could be either in cash or in kind; however, it would not be inconsistent with objectivism if Mr. Bailey's desire from his own self-interest is to help others with or without payment, as long as he doesn't force others to do the same.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It wasn't his and he shouldn't have kept it. He kept it for the sole purpose of ruining his competition that couldn't be bought any other way. Keeping something you found, or was left behind, and you KNOW who it belongs to is dishonest and thievery.
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  • Posted by Solver 12 years, 4 months ago
    Does anyone here think it was right for old man potter to keep the other bank's money that was left is his office, but he did not earn?
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  • Posted by $ jmlesniewski 12 years, 4 months ago
    One of my favorite characters and shows, Scrooge McDuck and DuckTales, were based on Ebenezer Scrooge.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Bring up the conversation of this post while watching it with the family-not the jewish attack part, necessarily, that is just my personal opinion, I don't have any proof to substantiate it. maybe I'll look for some...
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I've never thought about it that way. I have 3 movie versions of Scrooge contraband in my house. The best being the old black and white one.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You can learn on your own. But what is interesting, small, isolated groups of people tend to regress technologically. Mentors are nice, they are not necessary in learning how to use reason.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The bank should have classes on how to make your own living.... really?? That should be the banks job? As for the fishing metaphor... if I needed to learn how to fish I'd ask a fisherman to show me with the promise of giving him my first fish or two as payment, not sit around starving or stealing other peoples caught fish and hope that one would just decide to teach me to fish for myself so I'd stop eye balling his. Have some initiative, man!
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  • Posted by flanap 12 years, 4 months ago
    George Bailey, you know from the Building and Loan, should have held classes for his borrowers to help them learn "to fish" vs. just eating the "fish" others caught. Children have to be handled this way and who is to say that adults are automatically able to fish when they have never been shown how?

    One of most ingenious plots by Satan is to get those that do nothing to con guilt into those who do something.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 4 months ago
    I always felt that Dickens portraying Scrooge as a "money lender" was a disguised racial attack against Jews. There has never been any Dickens in our household. Our kids had to get it "on the streets" :)
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