--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Tim Tucker <smellypuppy@...> wrote:
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> The machine is not being forced to pay them. They are not making the machine do anything outside of what it is programmed to do. Deceiving an employee is not analogous.
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Instead of saying:
"They forced a machine to pay them a win on a wager THEY NEVER MADE."
if you prefer, I could say:
"Because of their actions the machine could respond in no other way than to pay them a win on a wager they never made."
I just felt it was easier to say it the first way, and I believe it is an appropriate word choice given the following definitions from merriam-webster.com
force - 3: to make or cause especially through natural or logical necessity
logic - 1 c: interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable
necessary - 1 c: determined or produced by the previous condition of things
Which points out that the main difference in what they did and deceiving an employee is that no matter how they attempt to trick the employee, the employee would still have a choice not to pay them, whereas the machine can not do anything else. In my mind that makes what they did an even greater manipulation.
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