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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Moen1305, post: 133662, member: 2544&quot;]In the middle of all that has been said so far in this thread, I thought that this comment stuck out as one of the oddest.&nbsp; If there is a more obvious attempt to change the subject and divert attention away from the topic at hand, I can&#039;t think of one.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I think that the sheer number of different user names used by certain individuals is a telling sign of some shaky ethical standards.&nbsp; WOW! Shifty coin dealers, who&#039;d a guessed that?&nbsp; It is part and parcel in the coin&nbsp; business as anyone who has collected coins for any amount of time can tell you.&nbsp; When you make the leap from collecting coins to buying and selling coins you are forced to climb in bed with the devil and play by his rules.&nbsp; You had better have a firm grasp of your core ethics before you take the plunge as opposed to developing them as you go or you may end up in a place you can&#039;t defend and didn&#039;t want to be in the first place.</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>I&#039;m easily&nbsp; more amazed at how long it took to identify<i> a trader in our mist&quot;</i>figuratively speaking, than the fact that the dishonesty exists within the ranks of our shared numismatic community.&nbsp; Midas, Stevesgiftshoppe, whatever you go by, you have never been shy about expressing your opinion and your point of view and getting right up in peoples faces as long as I&#039;ve been part of this community.&nbsp; With such strongly worded opinions and your attempt to overtly bully opponents, you can&#039;t logically expect much sympathy from the community that has long tolerated your abuses.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure you still have some supporters among the community and maybe they can help you to see the error of your ways.&nbsp; Either that or they will enable your position to the point of undermining their own.&nbsp; Hard to really tell what some folks will do.&nbsp;&nbsp; I guess what it comes to is &quot;Live by sword, die by the sword&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every individual has the capacity to decide right from wrong and those that don’t more often than not end up behind bars or at least dangling in front of the court system.&nbsp; We also have the ability to rationalize our choices and to justify any actions that we may take that run askew of predominant ethical standards.&nbsp; We run the risk and live with the consequences every day of our lives in both the big and the small decisions we make.&nbsp; This is how we are judged by society and deemed either a worthy member or a rogue member.&nbsp; With all of the knowledge you have to impart to those new to coin collecting, it would be a shame to have society deem you as the latter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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