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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1329311, member: 112&quot;]<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">What you are talking about is the difference between right and wrong - and illegal. Something that you (or others) see as being wrong (unethical) is not necessarily illegal. And that&#039;s where the problem is.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">You see, there is no definition of ethics. Ethics are an idea, and while you may find some others who agree with your idea of what is or is not ethical, you will also find many who disagree with your idea. Who is to judge,&nbsp; who exactly is right and who is wrong ? You - or them ?</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Everybody has a different idea of what is right, and what is wrong. That&#039;s why we have laws. And even if we don&#039;t agree with the laws, we do have to abide by them.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">OK - so who decides, who defines - fair market value ? You ? Somebody else ? Do you know of any place that fair market value is written down ? I don&#039;t. And that is the problem. There is no definition of fair market value.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">If I offer a coin for sale, say an 1880-S Morgan graded MS65 by PCGS,&nbsp; and I&#039;m asking a million dollars for that coin. And somebody is stupid enough to pay me a million dollars for that coin - did I break the law ? No, I didn&#039;t. There is not a single thing that is illegal about what I did.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">But what was I did ethical ? Who decides, who answers that question ? You, me, somebody else ?&nbsp; You see that&#039;s the problem. There isn&#039;t anybody to decide. And even if you put the question to 10,000 people you&#039;d still get a split on the answer of whether or not it was ethical. </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Same thing happens when you offer to buy something. It&#039;s no different. Take car dealers. If you go looking for a new car and you go to 10 different dealers, you&#039;re gonna get 10 different prices. They may differ by thousands. Is the dealer who is asking the most being unethical or doing anything illegal ? Are you doing something unethical or illegal by buying the car for the cheapest price you can get ? Who defines the fair market value for that new car ? </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Or how about when things go on sale. The clothing shops typically ask $50 for a shirt, pair of pants, whatever. But shop owner Jones down the street decides to have a sale and marks his shirts down to $30. You go into the shop and offer Jones $20 for the shirt, he accepts. Did you just break the law or do anything unethical ?</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Same thing with coins. There is no difference at all. So how can you define one as being unethical and not the other ?</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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