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WtfEvenIsExistence ✓ to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Would you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?

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Would you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?

WtfEvenIsExistence ✓ to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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    If they’d wasn’t a crime, it would be taking. Not stealing.

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      Nonhuman animals, which don’t have laws, still steal from each other.

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        No, they take from one another.

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          Wiktionary defines it as: To take illegally, or without the owner’s permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.

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            “To take ILLEGALLY-” if it wasn’t a crime, it wouldn’t be illegal, and therefore wouldn’t be stealing- it would be taking.

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              Or without the owner’s permission; I even put it in bold.

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