WtfEvenIsExistence3️@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?WtfEvenIsExistence3️@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years 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-up0·2 years agoStealing as a concept has existed for way longer than laws are
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoIf they’d wasn’t a crime, it would be taking. Not stealing.
minus-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 years agoNonhuman animals, which don’t have laws, still steal from each other.
minus-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 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-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 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-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years 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.