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WtfEvenIsExistence3️@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Would you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?

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Would you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?

WtfEvenIsExistence3️@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Big companie/rich people - absolutely

    Small businesses/regular folks - nah

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        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.

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            So like this !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com?

            Piracy isn’t stealing btw.

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                Ahh, robin hood style of embezzelment. 👍

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          It doesn’t take guts to steal. Just an inability to think, a streak of laziness, and a large sense of entitlement.

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            It does take guts to steal because you are doing it under the threat of imprisonment. Most people would be discouraged by that alone.

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              That isn’t “guts.” Overcoming being afraid of consequence is merely self interest mixed with lack of abstract thinking.

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      Robin Hood?

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        Oh interesting!

        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.

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        Nah, I would keep the treasures for myself 😁

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