[quote]ProgMtl wrote:
I did something like that once when I was 7…my mom made me go back to the store and tell the manager what I did…I think you should do the same (I know I’m a better person for it…thought I was going to prison at age 7)[/quote]
My mom made me do the same thing when I was around that age. It was a dinosaur book, from Walden’s book store.
I stole like a little mad man, even after that.
[quote]dk44 wrote:
The better question is:
What if after you stole the sunglasses, I stole the sunglasses from you?
Did I technically steal or not, since the sunglasses were not yours to begin with?[/quote]
Lol
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
AlteredState wrote: I think the chief difference between us is that the law meamns nothing to me, from a moral perspective.
I only concern myself with the law as it relates to getting caught and being punished. I live my my own code, which just happens to co-incide with some of the laws of the land.
As such, terms like ‘criminal act’, etc mean sod all to me. The law’s an ass quite frankly.
I would never rob someone. Not because the law says I can’t, but because my own moral compass says so.
I suppose you could say I live my life by ethics, not the law.
This is true of MOST people, including the people ripping the OP a new one.
I GUARANTEE that most of the people ripping him a new one for “breaking the law” use steroids, speed, cheat on their taxes, show up late for work or SURF THE FREAKING INTERNET WHILE AT WORK.
If you post on this very site during working hours (i.e., when not on an official break), then you have stolen money from your employer. That’s because your time does not belong to you. You must dutifully do your job when no on break. That means no interwebs.
I’m willing to bet most of the people here ripping the OP a new one have stolen way more than $20 from their employers by surfing the web on company time.
Things that make you go hmm… huh?[/quote]
The OP asked if he was stealing. He is.
If we asked if using the internet at work was wrong, and it is against company policy, then it’s wrong.
Nobody said that they do EVERYTHING right, and NEVER break the law.
I’m using the internet now, and i’m at work…
I feel very naughty.
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote: poor you
life doesn’t owe you anything
Why does he owe Wal-Mart anything? Why can’t he steal? Because the law says he can’t.
The law has said all sorts of things. You couldn’t get an abortion under the law, until very recently.
At one time, according to the law, you could OWN other people. Slavery was legal.
Must one always follow the law? If you had lived in Germany and a Jew had sought refuge, would you have called the police? That is what the law required?
I don’t think the issues are as simple as you and others make them out to be.
What about steroids? Those are against the law. So everyone who uses them here should be deemed a scum bag criminal? Why not?
How are the guys here who use illegal drugs morally superior to the guy who borrowed a pair of glasses from Wal-Mart?
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CLaw!!! you channeled HH and pulled out the nazi defense?
and sometimes things are simple
Interesting points, Calif Law.
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
AlteredState wrote: I think the chief difference between us is that the law meamns nothing to me, from a moral perspective.
I only concern myself with the law as it relates to getting caught and being punished. I live my my own code, which just happens to co-incide with some of the laws of the land.
As such, terms like ‘criminal act’, etc mean sod all to me. The law’s an ass quite frankly.
I would never rob someone. Not because the law says I can’t, but because my own moral compass says so.
I suppose you could say I live my life by ethics, not the law.
This is true of MOST people, including the people ripping the OP a new one.
I GUARANTEE that most of the people ripping him a new one for “breaking the law” use steroids, speed, cheat on their taxes, show up late for work or SURF THE FREAKING INTERNET WHILE AT WORK.
If you post on this very site during working hours (i.e., when not on an official break), then you have stolen money from your employer. That’s because your time does not belong to you. You must dutifully do your job when no on break. That means no interwebs.
I’m willing to bet most of the people here ripping the OP a new one have stolen way more than $20 from their employers by surfing the web on company time.
Things that make you go hmm… huh?[/quote]
Yes thank you. That’s a great argument that I never would have come up with.
Awesome post based on igniting a 4pg maelstrom of ethics/morality/conscience/ black & white shady grey comments;
To the OP - The fact that you even returned them speaks for your guilt, hence conscience about right or wrong. But damn man where do you drive “all day” that sunglasses where not a forethought?
Wal-mart sunglasses might have ruined your vision after all of this went down.