WtfEvenIsExistence3️ to [email protected]English • 2 years agoWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?message-square64fedilinkarrow-up160
arrow-up160message-squareWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?WtfEvenIsExistence3️ to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square64fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agoIt doesn’t take guts to steal. Just an inability to think, a streak of laziness, and a large sense of entitlement.
minus-squareWtfEvenIsExistence3️OPlinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoIt does take guts to steal because you are doing it under the threat of imprisonment. Most people would be discouraged by that alone.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agoThat isn’t “guts.” Overcoming being afraid of consequence is merely self interest mixed with lack of abstract thinking.
It doesn’t take guts to steal. Just an inability to think, a streak of laziness, and a large sense of entitlement.
It does take guts to steal because you are doing it under the threat of imprisonment. Most people would be discouraged by that alone.
That isn’t “guts.” Overcoming being afraid of consequence is merely self interest mixed with lack of abstract thinking.