Guessing about Honesty

The upcoming dance at The Stolen Club makes a great case study.
  
Back when The Robbery first happened, Joe steered well away from the Cheating Swindlers Who Robbed his Colleague. Even though The Robbers repeatedly asked The Honest One to call for the Stolen Club, Honest Joe repeatedly yet nicely refused to accept Robbery Loot.

Obviously, that has now changed.  This Sunday, more than two years after The Robbery, Joe will, for the very first time, accept Stolen Robbery Loot to call for Lying Cheating Crooks.
 
What changed?  It's time for wild guesses.
 
Joe has been hanging on, for years, in the rapidly dwindling square dance market.  What would _you_ do if _your_ business declined ten percent a year, for a decade? Would you remain totally honest and ethical? Or would you relax your moral standards in order to earn a living?
 
Perhaps the term "Honest Joe" is a relic from the past.  Perhaps he realizes he can no longer make a living by remaining honest.  Now he must accept robbery loot just to make ends meet.  If this guess is correct, isn't it a shame whenever someone has to resort to crime just to stay afloat?
 
People who opt for wrongdoing often "justify" the deed in their own minds.  Perhaps Joe figures that the "statute of limitations" has run out, i.e. all robberies which happened two years ago are suddenly legit.
  
Perhaps Joe is just getting old.  (Aren't we all?).  Perhaps he can no longer remember that, two years ago, one of his so-called "friends" was brutally robbed, swindled, cheated and smeared out of a business which took years to build.
 
Perhaps Joe was once upright and moral, but now The Devil Hisself has Up And Possessed Joe.

We could easily keep guessing.  Guessing is fun.  It's the natural human reaction to a probing question.  Here's the question:  what on earth would make a formerly decent person (like Joe) politely refuse for years to participate in a robbery, and then all-of-a-sudden decide that it's perfectly okay to call for lying cheating swindlers who bald-face stole and smeared an innocent couple out of their life's work? 
 
Why was it wrong, for several years, to profit from robbery, but suddenly today it's okay?  Some questions just really make you wonder.

Here's the biggest question of all.  This isn't really about Joe.  It's about YOU.  _You_ already know that the Stolen Club exists only because of robbery.  _You_ are well aware that dirty rotten crooks cheated and slandered a hard-working couple out of their life's work.  In short, _you_ surely know that something is totally rotten and illegitimate about FunDancers. 

So ... why would you go?  Why don't you find an honest dance instead?  And once you find an honest dance event, invite Joe.