WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?message-squaremessage-square70fedilinkarrow-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 · 11 months agomessage-square70fedilink
minus-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·11 months agoYes it would.
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·11 months agoNo, it wouldn’t. If murder wasn’t a crime- murder wouldn’t be illegal. It would just be killing someone. Stealing is a crime. If it wasn’t, it would just be taking things.
minus-squareThorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·11 months agoStealing as a concept has existed for way longer than laws are
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoIf they’d wasn’t a crime, it would be taking. Not stealing.
minus-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoNonhuman animals, which don’t have laws, still steal from each other.
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoNo, they take from one another.
minus-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months 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-up1·11 months 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-up2·11 months agoOr without the owner’s permission; I even put it in bold.
Yes it would.
No, it wouldn’t. If murder wasn’t a crime- murder wouldn’t be illegal. It would just be killing someone. Stealing is a crime. If it wasn’t, it would just be taking things.
Stealing as a concept has existed for way longer than laws are
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.