A too-successful thief always attracts unwanted attention. This was made necessary as much by reason of common sense as by choice. Then again, chance was also due a fair share of the credit.Īs a rule, though, he came by his modest income mostly honestly. It was to his great credit that he had managed to remain on the accepted side of current temporal morality as much as he had so far. His ethics were dictated by survival and not abstracts. A philosopher would nod knowingly in agreement. It could be argued, if the Flinx were willing to listen (a most unlikely happenstance), that the ultimate decision as to who qualified as crooked and who did not was an awfully totalitarian one to have to make. And when one is living alone and has not yet reached one's seventeenth summer, certain allowances in such matters must be made. Due to his environment his morals were of necessity of a highly adaptable nature. And' at that, only when it was absolutely necessary. The Flinx was an ethical thief in that he stole only from the crooked.
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