The difficulty of selling a Wii

[NJ5]

sinha said:
I have no interest in discussing what kind of economic behavior constitutes "douchebaggery" or is "hated with a passion" but I think if NJ5 was making grossly unfair analogies (like the rape thing) on the *opposite* side of this argument, he'd point out that certain ethnic groups were persecuted (by simpletons / nativists with a nonexistent grasp of economics) for being middlemen who were perceived as not adding any value but instead gouging consumers and profiting off the hard work of others.

My point was not to say he was as bad as the rapist in my imagined story, of course not! It's just that extreme examples go a long way in making some people understanding why something is not true.

In this case, the point was that saying "if I didn't scalp, some other guy would" is a very flawed defense for scalping. For one thing, it doesn't say anything about whether it's bad to scalp or not, and for another, it doesn't contain any proof that someone else would indeed scalp in all instances.