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> Humans will always crave to have more than each other ad will steal, loot, defraud, do anything to get there.

Yes and currently society has many many ways for the privileged to get even more than others than they already have, in ways that are legally accepted even if they’re morally reprehensible. And as long as we don’t change that and make the playing field more even, I don’t think judging petty theft so harshly makes any sense at all.



When you don't judge theft harshly you actually promote a culture of dishonesty.

It is the cruelest and vilest thing to do to those poor people who actually don't steal.


> When you don't judge theft harshly you actually promote a culture of dishonesty.

Yup. I wish we would start doing that.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/walmart-corporations-wage-t...

   A scathing new report finds that hundreds of major corporations in the United States are repeat wage-theft offenders — committing the violations and then paying the subsequent fines as part of the cost of doing business.


Lazy argument.

Working is always superior to stealing. Your words might try and cast them as morally equivalent, but they arent.




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