WtfEvenIsExistence3️ to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years agoWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?message-square43fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down110
arrow-up138arrow-down1message-squareWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?WtfEvenIsExistence3️ to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-square@Pratai@lemmy.calinkfedilink0•2 years agoIf they’d wasn’t a crime, it would be taking. Not stealing.
minus-square@Unbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilink2•edit-22 years agoNonhuman animals, which don’t have laws, still steal from each other.
minus-square@Unbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilink1•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-square@Pratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish1•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-square@Unbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoOr without the owner’s permission; I even put it in bold.
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.