WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?message-squaremessage-square63fedilinkarrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square63fedilink
minus-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoNonhuman animals, which don’t have laws, still steal from each other.
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoNo, they take from one another.
minus-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year 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-up1·1 year 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-up1·1 year agoOr without the owner’s permission; I even put it in bold.
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.