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Originally Posted by McLovin

Except the context matters....

In fact, if ND would have gone through with the deal, he would have been rewarding the dealership for their bad behavior. Instead of helping make the world a better place, he would have actually helped make it worse, by making the salesman's lies and broken promises financially rewarding/successful. ND wouldn't be a "gentleman," he'd be a "sucker."

I think what happened was sweet justice. The salesman/dealership tried to punk ND, but ultimately got punked back.

I hope that when you tell your son "they all do it" or "the other guy did it first" is not an excuse for his behavior, that you also tell him everything isn't always so black and white.

You have apparently missed the point. For some of us what matters is what we do, not what others do. When presented with someone who might act in bad faith we would avoid those people. Whos to say that if Rick had followed his word the dealer might have tried to do something else - that's why we.wouldn't deal w/those kind of people. Then this thread might be about "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me." But this about personal choices.