Exactly, I steal already from big faceless corporations but not from the everyday man… I would continue the same modus operandi… Probably just do it more or to a higher level lol
Lol you actually steal? Like shoplifting? Do you get nervous when doing so? Curious how people aren’t scared as hell when doing that stuff. Every time I see someone shoplift I’m like: damn, this person got the guts to steal!, but I don’t work for the store so idgaf what others do. Shoplifter you say? I didn’t see anything.
I won’t be the dumb thief who details his actions on the internet, but I wasn’t talking about piracy, and as I said not shoplifting or breaking and entering or anything like that…but it’s from big entities who don’t even notice it happened and the proceeds go to the needy 😅
I immediately read that as:
Big companies - “hell yeah we will steal from people”
Normal people/sm business owners - “no thank you, we don’t want to steal, or be stolen from”
That matches current statistics already since something like 75% of theft is wage theft in America.
Well, no legal consequence doesn’t mean no consequence. Walmart could definitely hire gangs to murder you (even if murder is still illegal in this hypothetical, they could just bribe the police to not investigate your murder).
The prevailing morality is to follow an arbitrary set of rules, mostly made by and for a class of people who have dominated the political sphere for most of human history. E.g. “If this will violate Ownership™ of a thing as defined by law, you shouldn’t do it.”
Another kind of morality is to consider the effects of an action. E.g. “If this makes someone’s life noticeably harder or more miserable, you shouldn’t do it.”
Another kind is to look at the social relations. E.g. “If this enriches yourself at the cost of someone who is already worse off than you, you shouldn’t do it.”
No, it wouldn’t. If murder wasn’t a crime- murder wouldn’t be illegal. It would just be killing someone. Stealing is a crime. If it wasn’t, it would just be taking things.
I would collect taxes if I held the power of physical violence over a community. All taxation is theft, amiright?
But seriously, stealing is a crime because prevailing thought within the community is that taking something that someone else has a claim on is wrong. If the prevailing thought was that it was not wrong, it wouldn’t be against the law, but we also would call it something else… Like taxation.
I agree. Guess I should have put a /s on the slogan. But it’s still taking a portion of something that is technically owned by one person or group for the betterment of the community.
Some people see that as theft and so would call it stealing even though there isn’t a law against it. My point is that this question is asked from a particular vantage point and what constitutes theft and the law may be different from one person to another.
Well tbf if someone stole my wallet at gunpoint but used a small portion of the money stolen to buy me lunch I’d still be pretty mad about him spending the rest of my money paying off his Haliburton credit card.
Not a majority of the money is spend on corruption like where do you live in fucking Russia or something? Zimbabwe? Also noome forces you to stay in that country for sure. I also left my home country.
No. Mostly because places where the rule of law has broken down, the response to theft is often pretty brutal. It stops being “off to jail for a short bit” and starts being “here’s a tire with gasoline in it, placed around you and lit on fire”. When all we have ever known are a society dominated by the rule of law, it’s easy to forget that part of the reason written law exists, is to keep punishment proportionate with crimes. And also how disproportionate that response could be, without the law.
I wouldn’t feel bad about stealing groceries since my local grocer admitted to price fixing and has jacked the prices to an inhumane degree. But like from a person or a small business or something, no.
If you count software piracy, then yes. In fact, I’ll admit to having done it within the past year (without giving specific dates for obvious reasons).