Better To Murder Than Commit Insurance Fraud

I am here to attest that there is much to be learned from the commercial media. Not only can you find out which television set has a sharper picture, or which after shave is guaranteed to drive the women wild, you can also garner enlightened knowledge that will challenge your misconceived notions. To what am I referring you may ask. Let me explain.I, like most people I’m sure, always thought that theft was always wrong no matter who the victim of theft was. In other words, whether you steal $50.00 from a millionaire or the regular middle class working man or woman next door, it is still an act of theft. But alas, I was wrong in that assessment. Indeed, the seriousness of the crime is based on the status of the victim, not on the act itself.How do I know this? The other evening while watching TV, a commercial came on about insurance fraud. It showed a woman being arrested for committing insurance fraud and the spot went on to explain that because of this woman’s shameful act, in addition to earning her husband’s consternation, her children rightfully deserve to be picked on at school and her friends had the right to spread nasty rumors about her.I am so glad that I was lucky enough not to be fixing my self a snack or grabbing a glass of iced tea when that spot aired on prime time television or else I would have still held the unenlightened and old-fashioned idea that all theft was equally bad. I also am glad that I saw the commercial because I didn’t realize before that the punishment for the sins of the perpetrator, in this case the mother, could be passed on to her children. I would have never known that it is okay for the kids at school to pick on this woman’s children because she chose to defraud her insurance company!And since I have never heard of this idea in connection with any other charge of fraud or theft, I can only assume that it is only okay to carry out the punishment to extended family members when the theft is against an insurance company. Why couldn’t this mother have chosen to rob the local supermarket instead of the insurance company and saved her poor children this rightfully deserved, according to the commercial, abuse at the hands of their classmates?I was also able to learn something else from that commercial. Not only is theft by insurance fraud more serious than any other theft, but it must also be more serious than rape or murder. Think about it, have you ever seen a television spot that claims that a murderer or rapist’s children should be harassed by their peers? I haven’t.So the lessons I take from that spot are these: one, Theft against an insurance company is worse than any other theft and warrants punishing by their peers the children of the one who defrauded. Two, Theft against an insurance company is even worse than rape or murder because there has never been, to my knowledge, a commercial stating that the child of a rapist or murderer deserves punishment by their peers.I guess it is high time I get with the program and rid myself of the old-fashioned idea that murder and rape may be a bit more serious than theft and also that all theft is equally wrong no matter who the victim is. And also, I need to rid myself of that equally antiquated notion that only the criminal himself or herself should be punished for the crime committed.So, if you ever turn to a life of crime, you should choose to be a murderer or maybe a robber of mom and pop stores, but don’t never commit insurance fraud. Your children will thank you.