WtfEvenIsExistence3️@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?message-squaremessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down111
arrow-up145arrow-down1message-squareWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?WtfEvenIsExistence3️@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square60fedilink
minus-squareThorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 years agoStealing as a concept has existed for way longer than laws are
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 years agoIf they’d wasn’t a crime, it would be taking. Not stealing.
minus-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoNonhuman animals, which don’t have laws, still steal from each other.
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 years agoNo, they take from one another.
minus-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoWiktionary defines it as: To take illegally, or without the owner’s permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years ago“To take ILLEGALLY-” if it wasn’t a crime, it wouldn’t be illegal, and therefore wouldn’t be stealing- it would be taking.
minus-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoOr without the owner’s permission; I even put it in bold.
Stealing as a concept has existed for way longer than laws are
If they’d wasn’t a crime, it would be taking. Not stealing.
Nonhuman animals, which don’t have laws, still steal from each other.
No, they take from one another.
Wiktionary defines it as: To take illegally, or without the owner’s permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
“To take ILLEGALLY-” if it wasn’t a crime, it wouldn’t be illegal, and therefore wouldn’t be stealing- it would be taking.
Or without the owner’s permission; I even put it in bold.