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It seems like he got a fair punishment for this. I guess for me its more along the lines of victimless crime. If you gobbling down burgers to try and win money knowing the odds, you clearly aren't that bright to begin with.

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Putting everything else aside for a moment: are you saying that people who "aren't that bright" can't be victims?

More that there's no material effect to remove the rare prizes on a lottery that are only worth a penny on the dollar combined.

So scamming millions of dollar is OK, as long as there are enough victims to absorb that cost?

By that reasoning you should stop paying your taxes, since everybody else can compensate by paying a tiny, imperceptible amount more.

I didn't say the theft was justified. But I would agree that nonpayment of taxes is not a crime that "victimizes" hundreds of millions of people.

The main value of the product is the food. Even if all the prizes were stolen, I'm not sure if there would be a 'victim' in the consumer.

I think most of the people arrested for this ended up serving very little time in jail, and even he was released after serving a fraction of his original sentence.

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