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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]

I’m the person you are referring to and I never said what I did isn’t stealing. I was merely answering OP’s question about understanding why someone might shoplift. I explained why (that I felt so guilty spending money it superseded my guilt over buying things I couldn’t afford). I never said it was ok, just how I thought about it at the time, because I thought it might be useful to her in getting through this challenge with her DC.

Now, I will say this: I don’t think my shoplifting was okay but I also don’t think it was that bad. I probably stole a grand total of $50 worth of merchandise over the course of a year. What’s the worst thing YOU have ever done? Who did you hurt? Did you stop or are still doing it? Did you talk it through with a therapist to figure out why you were doing it do you could stop?

I doubt it. Go ahead and judge me— I know who I am and I’ve made my peace.[/quote]

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