by Walter E. Block
May 1, 2024 - Moe, Larry, and Curly are planning to rob a bank.
They are careful and exhaustive in their deliberations. They determine which of them will drive the getaway car. They discuss, intensively, the best access and egress routes before and after their crime. They study, over and over again, the electronic and other defensive measures employed by their target so that their gang can obviate them. They find out at which dates and times there will be the fewest customers at this bank so as to ensure not only their own safety, but that there will be the least collateral harm; they are bank robbers, not murderers. How many and how well motivated the bank guards will be is an issue over which they have pored for hours. They are not at all a bunch of nerds, such as those depicted by the television show The Big Bang Theory. They are indeed sophisticated in electronics, as are the aforementioned, but they were not bullied when they were children; they were the macho bullies themselves. They are seriously planning to rob a bank and take rational steps toward this end. They plan for all contingencies. They agree that at 11:00 A.M. next Tuesday, they will
engage in their heist.
