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Chocolate though? That’s not even nutritional. There’s gotta be a line somewhere unfortunately.
You're going to turn in someone for stealing a candy bar? Because YOU don't think it's nutritious enough to steal? Maybe it's all they could grab without getting caught, and a Snickers bar will settle your grumbling stomach for a while.
Recalibrate your morality.
Yeah, and the same for booze or cigarettes. Those are luxuries and aren’t necessary to survive.
Would you be fine with someone stealing videogames or a tv or phone? What about just holing up in your house?
I don't care if ANYBODY steals ANYTHING from a big corporation. I have a problem with theft from small businesses, but Walmart, and their ilk? Rob'em blind.
I guarantee you aren’t the one to decide that. Mind your business
Nah, fuck that noise. Corpos can suck it
It's dense empty calories. The kind of thing you need living below freezing
There's not exceptions to the rule. It's not a judgement call, it's likely survival going on and your job is to stay out of it
My line depends on if the entity being stolen from is also a capitalist one stealing wages from their workers as profit or locking up/poisoning the food in their dumpsters.
Pretty easy rule to go by.
They just shot a 16 year old kid at a nearby Walmart for shoplifting. The biggest defense so far seems to be that they didn't realize he was 16, because he had facial hair. He also had a gun, but dropped it, and THEN they shot him.
Three of the Waltons are in the Top 15 richest Americans. I don't care what someone is doing, if they're stealing from Walmart, one of the most evil corporations in the history of the World, I'm totally cool with it.
And the food thing isn't for liability purposes in the US like people believe. They've been protected from liability for donating closed to expired food federally since the 90s.
I'd be shocked if Europe didn't have the same protections.
So people who can't afford stuff like chocolate just don't get to have it?
Yes that’s how life works.
If you can’t afford to drive, you can’t just steal a vehicle lmfao.
What about booze? Smokes? Advil? Where’s the line before someone’s just taking stuff so they feel better instead of surviving? Because that’s what people look the other way for, not for someone being selfish lmfao.
I made it clear that it’s fine for survival, but not for frivolous stuff. How does that make me a Nazi? Or do you just throw that word around when you can’t articulate an intelligent response?
Nah fuck your whataboutism. That's how life works? Fuck that then, fuck that way of life, I applaud anyone trying to change that way of life, instead of trying to defend the shitty status quo. I will absolutely 100% look the other way for someone even being selfish, if it means they're also hurting a capitalist.