Theft.

I got caught stealing when I was around 9 or 10. I took Baseball cards from a candy store. The owner made me go home and tell my parents who then made me go back and apologize to him. I felt terrible and only stole once after that. I broke into a drug dealers dorm room who had ripped me off and stole a huge bag of pot from him. And that was thirty years ago.

I won't even download pirated songs or movies. It's wrong and doesn't fit with my values.
Interesting on the last item. I will freely steal major-label releases and major-studio movies. For indies, who need the spreadsheet results (and the cash) to get a second chance, I buy.
 
I got caught stealing when I was around 9 or 10. I took Baseball cards from a candy store. The owner made me go home and tell my parents who then made me go back and apologize to him. I felt terrible and only stole once after that. I broke into a drug dealers dorm room who had ripped me off and stole a huge bag of pot from him. And that was thirty years ago.

I won't even download pirated songs or movies. It's wrong and doesn't fit with my values.

I got caught, with a mate, browsing stores. Arrested, sweets and comic books. The police tried to scare me. It didn't work.
 
Interesting on the last item. I will freely steal major-label releases and major-studio movies. For indies, who need the spreadsheet results (and the cash) to get a second chance, I buy.

Ahh, piracy is an entirely different animal.
 
Ahh, piracy is an entirely different animal.
Only because we haven't yet formed the bridge between online and offline possessions/objects. It's all someone else's commodity that you are taking as your own.
 
Interesting on the last item. I will freely steal major-label releases and major-studio movies. For indies, who need the spreadsheet results (and the cash) to get a second chance, I buy.

Just a personal choice. To me, stealing is stealing. While the impact to the victim may differ, the action is equally wrong.
 
Just a personal choice. To me, stealing is stealing. While the impact to the victim may differ, the action is equally wrong.
No argument. I rationalize it with what I know about the majors' intentional control/restriction of distribution (distribution is an artist's friend), but just because I think that, doesn't make the patterns/rules of trade any different.
 
Thoughts? I'm thinking about another thread and the time my then girlfriend saw me shoplift for the first time. She came from a lovely middle class background, I came from Manc.

Have you ever thought about getting a job? Do you sell you food card every month or trade it for drugs?
 
Only because we haven't yet formed the bridge between online and offline possessions/objects. It's all someone else's commodity that you are taking as your own.

No, because piracy isn't theft.
 
Someone stole a compressor from me. They came into my carport in thunderstorm and pushed it to the street. I'm sure it was someone who felt they needed it more than me, and since I had so much money, it wouldn't be missed.

Someone stole a bicycle from me. Of course, wealthy people don't need bikes, so it's not as if he should feel bad about it.

Someone stole 10 million dollars from the company where I had worked 22 years. It forced the owner to sell to a competitor and all the management lost their jobs. The thief was the general manager and his plan was to buy the company with stolen money. He got caught a couple weeks before a 2 million dollar note was due. It was too late.

After that, I no longer had the well paying job that made it okay for people to steal from me, so I'm safe from that kind of thing, now.
 
I'll call bullshit. You're able bodied and capable.

He's just a lazy prick, nothing more.

He supposedly left a good paying job so he could just sit on his fat ass all day and deliver tampons and diapers to old age homes.
 
Someone stole a compressor from me. They came into my carport in thunderstorm and pushed it to the street. I'm sure it was someone who felt they needed it more than me, and since I had so much money, it wouldn't be missed.

Someone stole a bicycle from me. Of course, wealthy people don't need bikes, so it's not as if he should feel bad about it.

Someone stole 10 million dollars from the company where I had worked 22 years. It forced the owner to sell to a competitor and all the management lost their jobs. The thief was the general manager and his plan was to buy the company with stolen money. He got caught a couple weeks before a 2 million dollar note was due. It was too late.

After that, I no longer had the well paying job that made it okay for people to steal from me, so I'm safe from that kind of thing, now.
Did anyone that was starving steal the food from your table? I'm pretty sure that no-one stole the 10 million dollars because of hunger.
 
Did anyone that was starving steal the food from your table? I'm pretty sure that no-one stole the 10 million dollars because of hunger.

No, he wanted to own a Toyota dealership.

I'm sure he had good reasons, and in his defense, he was stealing from people who had more food than he did.
 
No, he wanted to own a Toyota dealership.

I'm sure he had good reasons, and in his defense, he was stealing from people who had more food than he did.

Ah, now we're down to the meat of it. Is stealing wrong?
 
Oooh, the same old played out meme.

How predictable.

You're a panty-waste.
 
Men that lose their children and never see them say that to me all the time...

Ah. Must be hard. Tell me, did it get harder when people started shutting down their facebook? Did you start feeling like less of a man when internet hard men became laughable?
 
Ah, now we're down to the meat of it. Is stealing wrong?

Of course it is. Otherwise we would not be discussing it. Is exercise wrong? Is smiling wrong? You know the answers.
 
Of course it is. Otherwise we would not be discussing it. Is exercise wrong? Is smiling wrong? You know the answers.

Really? Stealing a loaf of bread to feed your kids is wrong?
 
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