People are easily seduced by the temptation of the immediate pleasure. The criminal, for example, might eventually find oneself, in their old age, looking back on his or her misspent years with regret, but this prospect is much less likely to deter him or her in his or her youth than the threat of imprisonment in the very near future. With tax season coming up and the holidays coming up, many people are looking to get some extra cash. Criminals are proficient in stealing the personally identifiable information (PII) of individuals to facilitate various fraud activities, including using stolen identity information to files fraudulent tax returns. Once the fraudsters obtain the victim PII, they electronically file tax returns and set up pre-paid debit cards or ban accounts to route fraudulent returns. The balances on the pre-paid cards and bank accounts are quickly depleted shortly after the tax refund is issues. The commission of one vice hurries sinful creatures into innumerable crimes.  #RyanPhillippe 1 of 8

The fraudsters utilize multiple methods to obtain the information needed to file a tax return. The most popular methods include: computer intrusion, the online purchase of stole PII, the recruitment of insiders who have legitimate access to sensitive information, the physical theft of computers that contain PII, the impersonation of Internal Revenue Service personnel, and the aggregation of information that is obtained through multiple publicly available Web sites. A recent investigation identified a tax return fraud ring responsible for filing approximately 644 fraudulent tax returns totaling over $1.9 million in attempted fraud. It is truly wonderful how easily Society can console itself for the worst of its shortcomings with a little bit of clap-trap. Having committed a crime once is a sad handle to the committing of it again. All the reflections wear off when the temptation renews itself.   #RyanPhillippe 2 of 8

We have the right to investigate superstitious interpretations; individual awkward acts do not by any means always have the same meaning, but, depending on the circumstances, they serve to represent now this or that purpose. Recently, we passed through a period in my house, during which an unusual number of glass and china dishes were broken, rare tress cut down, and other strange things. I myself did not contribute to the damage. This little endemic was readily explained by the fact that it “betrothal” of my son. At such festivities, it is customary to break some dishes and utter at the same time some felicitating expression. This custom may signify a sacrifice or express any other symbolic sense. When servants destroy fragile objects by letting them fall, we certainly do not think in the first place of a psychic motive for it; still, some obscure motives are not improbably even here. Nothing lies farther from the undominated by a foolish hostility against these productions, especially when the objects, whose worth they do not realize, become a source of a great deal of work for them.  #RyanPhillippe 3 of 8

On the other hand, persons of the same education and origin employed in scientific institutions often distinguish themselves by great dexterity and reliability in the handling of delicate objects, as soon as they begin to identify themselves with their masters and consider themselves an essential part of the staff. I shall here add the report of a young mechanical engineer, which gives some insight into the mechanism of damaging things. Some time ago, I worked with many others in the laboratory of the High School on a series of complicated experiments on the subject of elasticity. It was a work that we undertook of our own volition, but it turned out that it took up more of our time then we expected. One day, while going to the laboratory with F., he complained of losing so much time, especially on this day, when he had so many other things to do at the house. I could only agree with him, and he added half-jokingly, alluding to an incident of the previous week: “Lets us hope that the machine will refuse to work, so that we can interrupt the experiment and go back to the house earlier.”  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 8

In arranging the work, it happened that F. was assigned to the regulation of the pressure valve; that is, it was his duty to carefully open the valve and let the fluid under pressure flow from the accumulator into the cylinder of the hydraulic press. The leader of the experiment stood at the manometer and called a loud “Stop!” when the maximum pressure was reached. At this command, F. grasped the valve and turned it with all his force—to the left (all valves, without any exception, are closed to the right). This caused a sudden full pressure in the accumulator of the press, and as there was no outlet, the connecting pipe burst. This was quite a trifling accident to the machine, but enough to force us to stop our work for the day and go back to the house. It is characteristic, moreover, that some time later on discussing this occurrence, my friend F. could not recall the remark that I absolutely remember he had made.  #RyanPhillippe 5 of 8

Similarly, to fall, to make a misstep, or to slip need not always be interpreted as an entirely accidental incontinence of a motor actions. The linguistic double meaning of these expressions point to diverse hidden phantasies, which may present themselves through the giving up of bodily equilibrium. I recall a number of lighter nervous ailments in people which made their appearance after falling without injury, and which were conceived as traumatic hysteria as a result of the shock of the fall was already a preparation of the neurosis, and an expression of them same unconscious phantasies of the sexual content which may be taken as the moving forces behind the symptoms. Was not this very thing meant in the proverb which says, “When a maiden falls, she falls on her back”? We can also add to these mistakes the case of one who gives a beggar a gold piece in place of a copper or a silver coin. The solution of such mishandling is simple: it is an act of sacrifice designed to mollify fate, to avert evil, and so on.  #RyanPhillippe 6 of 8

If we hear a tender mother or an aunt express concern regarding the health of a child, immediately before taking a walk during which she displays her charity, contrary to her usual habit, we can hardly doubt the sense of this apparently undesirable accident. In this manner, our faculty acts make possible the practice of all those pious and superstitious customs to which must shun the light of consciousness, because of the strivings against them of our unbelieving reason. The opposition between duty and inclinations is a false one: the real contest is between conflicting inclinations lead to the greatest pleasure, i.e., the most intense and lasting satisfaction. If “pleasure” means “whatever a person wills,” one may well take pleasure in the happiness of others. However, it certainly does not follow that one that one must. For, even granted that the course of action that brings most pleasure to the individual in the long run will be the one that also brings most pleasure to others, it may still be necessary for the legislator to intervene.  #RyanPhillippe 7 of 8

That accidental actions are really intentional will find no greater credence in any other sphere than in the sexual activity, where the border between the intention and accident hardly seems discernible. That an apparently clumsy movement may be utilized in a most refined way for the sexual purposes, I can verify by a nice example from my own experience. In a friend’s house, I met a young lady visitor who excited in me a feeling of fondness which I had long believed extinct, thus putting me in a jovial, loquacious and complaisant mood. At that time, I endeavored to find out how this came about, as a year before this same young lady made in impression to me. The word “pleasure” is notoriously ambiguous. It could mean what pleases a person to do is simply what one wills to do; and this is perhaps the most consistent meaning. The simple fact of human psychology is that people have desires and seek to gratify them. The only rational way to judge between alternative courses of action is to choose the one that gratifies the most desires. Gratification is always good, and that, while it may often be necessary to repress some desires, this is only in order that other desires may be gratified.  #RyanPhillippe 8 of 8