I am Joey Arnold Original Oatmeal. I am writing about Kathy who stole my bike.
In murder trials, the murderers will have their excuses. They may plead self-defense or insanity.
However, murder is still murder, even if there are excuses, reasons, pleads, or other details to it.
Likewise, theft is still theft, even if it by a Vigilante like Kathy who stole my bike, whom may possibly believe that we were in a trade, as in a conditional agreement, contract, condition, oath, two-way-deal, two-way-promise, thing.
However, communication is very important, especially since she should have known that I was from a different culture.
If I was Vietnamese, then it would be more my fault because I should know that Vietnamese rarely understand the true ultimate agape love sense and meaning and definition to unconditional love of unconditional freedom of giving charity to others, free things, with no strings attached or conditions or expectations or anything else imaginable.
But I am not Vietnamese. I told Kathy many times that I was not going to return the favor necessarily. I will tell anybody that I know the future and that I will not give back to people.
But I do not like being forced or obligated to go against my own will or certain things of universal morality of absolute morality and other things.
Kathy is an illustration of a bit of evil in this world.
People do know.
People do care.
It works.
It will continue working.
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753 Nguyễn Duy, phường 12, Quận 8, Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh, đất nước Việt Nam
Original OatmealMarch 17, 2014 at 2:13 AMNo. Wrong. Incorrect. Kathy stole my bike. I told her not to take it and sell it. She took it and gave it to her friend. She never compensated for the bike. She lied and tricked me. This has nothing to do with different cultures. Morality transcends the realms of the separate and unique cultures and other walls and boundaries. I believe that right is always right and wrong is always wrong. I confront people when they do wrong.
Kathy owes me $200 USDDelete
9ea30fee-adaa-11e3-a9b0-000f20980440March 17, 2014 at 2:49 AM
yes i do understand that our concepts of morality are universal and applicable to all people, you are right in that. however, after having lived in Vietnam for the past 5 years, i believe that the housing and help she provided for you "free" were not actually "free" in her eyes. vietnamese hospitality is not like american hospitality, there is something expected in return (though not directly, as evidenced by her theft of your bike). i know that you want to do something big and remove all evils in this world, but i think you are focusing too much of your energy on Kathy, and not actual evil. if you do succeed in making Kathy realize the errors in her ways, no one will know, no one will care. don't you want to do something bigger??
