Poll: Is it culturally acceptable to steal from walmart?

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Markness

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Rednog said:
Markness said:
Rednog said:
To me stealing is only justified in certain situations, such as in a person who cannot afford food to live and they steal from some one who won't feel an impact of the item being gone. In the walmart case no, your friend is just trying to justify his actions for free crap.
Would you be ok with a hobo coming into your house and stealing all your silverware?
What possible reason would he have for stealing all my silverware? Stealing all of my silverware would clearly make me feel an impact and thus be against what I said.
I think it entirely possible to justify the action of stealing in some situations. Note that I'm not justifying everyday theft or his friend, I think that on average people steel out of greed and not need.
I'm not trying to be mean, Im just asking you to think about it. The hobo could sell the silverware to buy food (by silverware I mean the good stuff you take out once every couple of months for fancy dinner parties). Humanity is a species of cold hearted bastard's. Despite the fact that we really don't need our expensive silverware we are not just going to let people get away with stealing it, even to feed their families. Unless your living on the street yourself I don't know how you can take that viewpoint.

err. On topic : Yeah stealing is wrong, it's against the law, it'll never be socially acceptable to steal from anywhere in developed countries etc.
 

Caimekaze

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Your friend isn't an anarchist, if he wants society to crumble then he is merely someone with a penchant for destruction.

And no, I don't believe it is acceptable to steal from wal-mart, or any other shop, and neither does my culture.
 

RAWKSTAR

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And someone tell me why this 'Wal(l)mart' place is so evil?

I shouldn't see why stealing should be aloud anyway...
 

Mathew952

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Somehow, I don't think it will really hurt/effect any one if a college kid steals a box of sno-caps.
 

Unknower

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Mathew952 said:
Somehow, I don't think it will really hurt/effect any one if a college kid steals a box of sno-caps.
Small drops of water make a friggin' big ocean. All the shoplifters combined cause very big losses to shops.
 

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Aiden Rebirth said:
Mathew952 said:
Somehow, I don't think it will really hurt/effect any one if a college kid steals a box of sno-caps.
he mostly steals pc games, actually.
With piracy what it is, that feel like a very stupid thing to do.
 

sanomaton

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Houmand said:
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There is spelled They're, and dude its Wallmart. WALLMART. So no, you can't steal anything from them. Because you would go to jail. But if you WERN'T to go to jail, then yes, steal everything you can from Walmart.

And I forgot that there is one l in Walmart. And I just hate them because they made my favorite hardware store go out of buisness :mad:
First you correct him saying it's "WALLMART", and in the second half of your comment you spell it Walmart.
Does anyone see the irony in this?
C'mon!
Lol'd!

But yeah, I don't really care whether you steal from Walmart or nah. We don't have any Walmarts here so... Well, all in all I'm opposed to stealing whether you were only stealing something lil like candy or some bigger stuff. But for this question I still answered "don't care" cos I really don't care about the subject (= Walmart) in question.
 

mattttherman3

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Well if you feel that strongly about it, report him to the staff at the Walmart. I may hate the way Walmart treats its employees but stealing from the store could possibly get them in trouble for not noticing your "friend". By the way, hanging around with people like that won't get you far in life.
 

Aiden Rebirth

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DragunovHUN said:
"your friend" right...
oh bugger off, this isn't a confession, I really do have a friend who does this.
Silver said:
Aiden Rebirth said:
Mathew952 said:
Somehow, I don't think it will really hurt/effect any one if a college kid steals a box of sno-caps.
he mostly steals pc games, actually.
With piracy what it is, that feel like a very stupid thing to do.
we live in dorms with campus provided internet, and they have rules against piracy, namely a month long lock out of internet services.
 

Ionami

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Oh anarchists are retards. They have absolutely no clue what they're talking about, and what the reality of an anarchistic society would be like. Screw 'em all. Idiots.
 

Susan Arendt

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Your friend is a jackass. Period. No, it's not justified, socially acceptable, or in any way OK.
 

Jeronus

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Aiden Rebirth said:
I have a friend that steals from walmart on a regular basis, he is a crazy wanna be anarchist in college with me, who believes that everyone is okay with stealing from walmart, so it' no big deal.
Edit. let it be noted he mostly steals pc games, since they are not in a locked case.
To quote a cartoon," You're not advancing any struggle by being cheap."
 

Combined

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STEALING IS BAD.

Stealing is bad in every way and form imaginable. You can attempt to justify it, but it won't be. Whether you're rich or poor, you're causing damage. Even if it's to a store, it's still damage. And thus, you're committing a crime. Crime is NEVER okay. All who commit crimes, even as small as this, should be turned in immediately. Justice has to be done.

Your friend makes Combined sad.
 

Eclectic Dreck

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Gitsnik said:
I'll vote that stealing is always wrong.

But I've done it before.

And someone tell me that Robin Hood was evil - and actually believe it.....Someone who is not the direct descendant of the Sheriff.
Doing evil (stealing) for the sake of good (lessening the suffering of the poor and disenfranchised) is stil doing evil. Does it balance out in a karmic sense? Maybe - but the intial action is still wrong no matter what the intentions are.
 

guess who

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The way I see it is all's fair in love and war, if your freind has joined the cause against walmart than anyway to hurt them is fine in that context, but all warriors must be prepared to fall in battle (in this cast get arrested).
 

Beetlejooce

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I used to live in England, we have no Walmarts. Hahaewhwahawhaw

I don't believe in stealing from the little corner shops who it would really hurt, but shops like Topman, WHSmiths, and those sorts of ones were regulars for me and my friends :/

If you're going to steal, do it from a big store