WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?message-squaremessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down111
arrow-up145arrow-down1message-squareWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square54fedilink
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minus-squareThorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 years agoStealing as a concept has existed for way longer than laws are
minus-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoNonhuman animals, which don’t have laws, still steal from each other.
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-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoOr without the owner’s permission; I even put it in bold.
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Stealing as a concept has existed for way longer than laws are
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Nonhuman animals, which don’t have laws, still steal from each other.
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Wiktionary defines it as: To take illegally, or without the owner’s permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
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Or without the owner’s permission; I even put it in bold.