[wideawake]

some people will natter "well, they shouldn't have had all their money in Enron". I can only hope that if one of their loved ones is shot/stabbed/raped no one ever says "well, you shouldn't have gone to a 7/11 at night".

A false moral equivalence and a poor analogy.

You can diversify your stockholdings - you can't diversify your body so that you have three fingers going to 7/11 at one in the morning, two legs safely at home, a torso staying at a friend's house, and your arms and head in a secure warehouse facility.

[Ready4Freddy]

Talk to the Taliban about that one. ;>) Or Jeffery Dahmer

..you can't diversify your body so that you have three fingers going to 7/11 at one in the morning, two legs safely at home, a torso staying at a friend's house, and your arms and head in a secure warehouse facility.

[Rte66]

Good grief. Nearly all the people at Enron worked 80-hour work-weeks, generating all that pie-in-the-sky stuff they generated.

No one had time to even do lunch with a friend, much less juggle a bunch of diversified investments, trying to corner the best deal and lowest vig, to make a good impression on an overly critical FR poster later when it was all analyzed.

[RedStateRocker]

No, it isn't. That punk Skilling is exactly the equivalent of someone who holds up a 7-11; the negligence or lack of wisdom of the person they damage has *NO* bearing on the immorality of their action. There is an assumption of risk inherent in many if not most actions, but that does not exclude a CRIMINAL from full and complete liability for ALL of the consequences of their actions. Any and every thief should get a sentence proportionate to what they stole or damaged. I think he, as with all criminals, should be required to labor as a slave until everyone damaged has been made whole.