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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It amazes how people try to excuse and normalize stealing. No wonder our society is in a free fall. Truly sad.[/quote]

I'm sorry, all I saw, aside from the posts like yours, people explaining some of the root causes of stealing.  Can you point me to the posts excusing and normalizing stealing?  [/quote]

The closest anyone has come is saying that they don't feel guilty for stealing food for their children when they were poor and in an abusive relationship. I wouldn't feel guilty about that either! That's not normalizing or excusing stealing, it's understanding context. It's far more upsetting that a mother would have to shoplift food for her child than that she stole. These people have no perspective.[/quote]

This is what Les Miserables was about and why Jean Valjean went to prison for stealing a loaf of bread for a hungry child. The entire question was about whether it should really be a crime and what justice is.[/quote]

New poster. Yes, it is a crime that you steal organic blueberries and cute leggings for your baby. Give me a break.No one here was starving, just merely entitled. A thief is a thief. Plenty of people cope just fine in difficult circumstances without being an entitled thief.[/quote]
+1 there is no excuse, and I grew up in a lower income household, immigrant parents.

I did steal an eraser from my friend (I know.. terrible friend I was), but never at a store.  Still, it was and is inexcusable here.

Now, if we lived in 1780s  France where there was no food or social welfare, I would not blame the poor for stealing.

I will say that if I saw a poor person stealing food because they were hungry, I would still pay for it.  Stealing is still wrong, though, but so is letting people starve.[/quote]

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