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Rated: 13+ · Critique · Adult · #1023493
Am I the only one that thinks like this? Is this really all that Abstract?
Abstract Observations?

When a politician steals it's called:
Appropriated

When men in uniforms steal it's called:
Commandeered

When a banker steals it's called:
Embezzled

When a lawyer steals it's called:
Litigation fees

When a stock broker steals it's called:
Insider trading

When a policeman steals it's called:
Confiscated

When the government steals it's called:
Eminent Domain

When an investment consultant steals it's called:
Absconded

When an ordinary citizen steals it's called theft.

Often times a uniform separates killing from
Murder

What does it take for the common taxpayer to be assassinated rather than murdered? A position somewhere in the government?
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