# Being a moron pays off **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 24, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-moron-pays-off/826649 "2018-12-24T21:10:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-moron-pays-off/826649/121 "2018-12-26T22:42:32Z")
> [@UCBearcats](#): > > **Didn’t sympathize with NK.** Just said the kid was stupid and died for going someplace he shouldn’t have gone. You bought their story with no evidence. I’ll call that sympathizing. ---
**Author:** ![UCBearcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/77aa72/32.png) [@UCBearcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UCBearcats)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-moron-pays-off/826649/122 "2018-12-26T22:46:18Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You bought their story with no evidence. I’ll call that sympathizing. You can call it what you want. It was not done as support for NK. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-moron-pays-off/826649/123 "2018-12-26T22:51:22Z")
> [@UCBearcats](#): > > You can call it what you want. It was not done as support for NK. You must have had _some_ reason. Rational people consider claims from the NK government to be suspect. There’s also the fact you consider torture and death to be an acceptable penalty for stealing a poster. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-moron-pays-off/826649/124 "2018-12-26T23:31:22Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You must have had _some_ reason. Rational people consider claims from the NK government to be suspect. > There’s also the fact you consider torture and death to be an acceptable penalty for stealing a poster. The simple problem here is that the OP is an abhorrent hateful shit-stain. Where normal humans have empathy, the OP has only seething hatred. My last run-in with this piece of excrement was [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21381236&postcount=102), where he had zero sympathy for the little girl who died in CPB custody, and even less for her distraught family, whom he blames for everything. He’s just a mindless cackling troll. This completely useless thread is ample evidence. Fucker should be banned. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-moron-pays-off/826649/125 "2018-12-27T00:55:22Z")
This thread is evidence against the title thesis of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-moron-pays-off/826649/126 "2018-12-27T01:18:46Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > This thread is evidence against the title thesis of the OP. Nah. It’s paying off for him in spades. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-moron-pays-off/826649/127 "2018-12-27T01:58:38Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Nah. It’s paying off for him in spades. Oh yeah, i forgot getting harshly criticized and dismissed by everyone is the goal of certain types of posters. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-moron-pays-off/826649/128 "2018-12-27T01:59:23Z")
> [@UCBearcats](#): > > Didn’t sympathize with NK. Just said the kid was stupid and died for going someplace he shouldn’t have gone. You’ve done a lot more in this thread than “just saying the kid was stupid”. And, at the time, why shouldn’t he have gone? Yes, the US government has long had warning against going but at the time it wasn’t banned, and no foreigners had been killed in NK custody. > [@running\_coach](#): > > You bought their story with no evidence. I’ll call that sympathizing. This is what UCB has done: bought the story with no evidence of its veracity. > [@UCBearcats](#): > > You can call it what you want. It was not done as support for NK. See the video I linked earlier. ---
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-moron-pays-off/826649/129 "2018-12-27T02:14:40Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Fucker should be banned. And until then, stop feeding him. This thread is awful, and all it does is feed this jagoff’s narcissism. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-moron-pays-off/826649/130 "2018-12-27T04:16:47Z")
It’s a Pit thread but I’ll add a little bit of a information. Money from a ruling like this can be recovered from frozen funds held in the US. NK doesn’t have as much frozen in our control as certain other countries might have, but they do have some. In theory, the practice of suing another country for situations like this is thought to be a deterrent. Again, assuming they have anything in US control to be seized and disbursed. ETA: **UCB** is a waste of space and a hateful maggot. Who thinks someone deserves to die for taking a poster, if he even did? Holy shit, if we all got killed for being idiots when we were young, the earth would be completely de-populated. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-moron-pays-off/826649.md?page=6)