Theft.

[Adre]

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

Borrow, beg, forage, go on food stamps. Stealing is the lazy man's solution, which you seem to accept. You appear to be looking for a political argument, which does not interest me. I have to reserve my good stuff for Chevetteman.

 

[Squibbs]

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?

I look at my facebook twice a year, so who cares?

You were always laughable. Remember when you were going to come beat me up...lol

 

[Sean]

I look at my facebook twice a year, so who cares?

You were always laughable. Remember when you were going to come beat me up...lol

Thankyou. You just admitted to being Cade.

 

[Squibbs]

Thankyou. You just admitted to being Cade.

How so, detective?

 

[bronzeage]

Ah, now we're down to the meat of it. Is stealing wrong?

I've never met a sociopath who thought it was.

 

[Sean]

I've never met a sociopath who thought it was.

Have you ever met a poor person that thought it was?

 

[bronzeage]

Have you ever met a poor person that thought it was?

I know a lot of poor people don't like it when someone steals from them.

 

[Sean]

I know a lot of poor people don't like it when someone steals from them.

Agreed.

 

[Squibbs]

At least nobody can steal sean's dignity.

The tit lost that years ago.

 

[Peregrinator]

I think I have to prioritize human life above wealth, so I guess, in the case that the only choices are steal or starve, admittedly a rare case in modern, prosperous societies, then I go with steal as the lesser evil. Beyond that, I've stolen things in my life, and I regret all of them. It's been a very long time since I've stolen anything other than music. I generally follow more or less what Sonny said about music, though, so I guess ripping MP3's from YouTube is still an area where I fail ethically.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I think I was 10 or 11years-- I stole a box of baseball cards from the store. I opened them up and found out that each pack in the box had all the same players. I had all these cards but it wasn't the same as trading for the ones I really wanted. I stole my own joy and realized it was all wrong. I robbed the store and cheated my soul. I didn't feel good.

 

[Byron In Exile]

What I'm getting at, really, is that I have no moral compass when it comes to theft. Yeah, steal from me and I'll hunt you down with an axe. But I'm not Tesco, I don't rip off my suppliers. I'm not Microsoft, I don't release shit ware and bully my competitors.

Yeah, yeah. You're a low-life punk-ass loser.

Tell us something we don't already know.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I think I have to prioritize human life above wealth, so I guess, in the case that the only choices are steal or starve, admittedly a rare case in modern, prosperous societies, then I go with steal as the lesser evil.

O rly?

Well, let's say I need a kidney. You have two, but you only need one. So I guess it would be the lesser evil for me to drug you and take one of yours?

 

[Squibbs]

O rly?

Well, let's say I need a kidney. You have two, but you only need one. So I guess it would be the lesser evil for me to drug you and take one of yours?

Only if he is rich and evil.

 

[dolf]

I don't do theft. I tell a store if they hand me too much change.

To me, it's not about whether they're big or deserving. To me, it's about me.

 

[Van_Jones]

I find it odd that people are still replying to this lowlife piece of shit.
He has no morals and people are actually replying to him. There are some very fucked up people on here.

 

[kbate]

I don't do theft. I tell a store if they hand me too much change.

To me, it's not about whether they're big or deserving. To me, it's about me.

This.


Starving, she's rich, they won't miss it, and everything else tossed up in explanation is just rationalisation, attempts to change a common thief into robin hood. Steal from the rich, give to the poor (which happens to be me). Stolen virtue is stolen material as well.

I'd rather beg than steal and I'd whore before I'd beg if that's what it took to feed myself and my family.

 

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[dolf]

This.


Starving, she's rich, they won't miss it, and everything else tossed up in explanation is just rationalisation, attempts to change a common thief into robin hood. Steal from the rich, give to the poor (which happens to be me). Stolen virtue is stolen material as well.

I'd rather beg than steal and I'd whore before I'd beg if that's what it took to feed myself and my family.

whoring is an honest trade.

rich supermarkets don't lose precious profit over things that get stolen, they just up the price on everything else. if i stole a loaf of bread that would push the price up on every other loaf of bread, if only by a billionth of a penny. my theft would contribute to the poor not being able to afford bread.

i drum that into my kids. images of starving grannies.

 

[Radiohead]

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.

Common People.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The whole "steal for food" argument . . . isn't, doesn't, and won't. I know a few folks who went through spells of living on the street, and they told me that each and every day in this great nation of ours, plenty of food is tossed out of the back of restaurants and grocery stores, enough so that stealing food is completely unnecessary. Thirty minutes after closing, the pizza joint puts out a couple or six pizzas, the fuck-ups which were ordered and/or made, with nary a toothmark in them, and usually still warm.


So it's now just about stealing . . . and adjustable morals, an oxymoron if ever there were.


And by the way, thieves lie.

 

[kbate]

whoring is an honest trade.

rich supermarkets don't lose precious profit over things that get stolen, they just up the price on everything else. if i stole a loaf of bread that would push the price up on every other loaf of bread, if only by a billionth of a penny. my theft would contribute to the poor not being able to afford bread.

i drum that into my kids. images of starving grannies.

They also turn in their losses to their insurance company and/or deduct the expense from their profits (or both) in order to offset their tax burden.

So theft from stores is good - it supports jobs in the insurance industry, IRS and in the local police and security markets.

 

[dolf]

They also turn in their losses to their insurance company and/or deduct the expense from their profits (or both) in order to offset their tax burden.

So theft from stores is good - it supports jobs in the insurance industry, IRS and in the local police and security markets.

large thefts, but not the daily loss of small items. no insurance company would pay out for the dead cert of tesco losing £#/year on shoplifting.
you only help insurance employees if you rob the payroll. you have a gun, right?

 

[kbate]

large thefts, but not the daily loss of small items. no insurance company would pay out for the dead cert of tesco losing £#/year on shoplifting.
you only help insurance employees if you rob the payroll. you have a gun, right?

I'm just trying to find a way I can feel good about stealing. I suppose I did eat a few grapes in the grocery.