WtfEvenIsExistence ✓@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?message-squaremessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down111
arrow-up145arrow-down1message-squareWould you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?WtfEvenIsExistence ✓@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square60fedilink
minus-squareAnalogyAddict@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoIt doesn’t take guts to steal. Just an inability to think, a streak of laziness, and a large sense of entitlement.
minus-squareWtfEvenIsExistence ✓@reddthat.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoIt does take guts to steal because you are doing it under the threat of imprisonment. Most people would be discouraged by that alone.
minus-squareAnalogyAddict@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoThat isn’t “guts.” Overcoming being afraid of consequence is merely self interest mixed with lack of abstract thinking.
It doesn’t take guts to steal. Just an inability to think, a streak of laziness, and a large sense of entitlement.
It does take guts to steal because you are doing it under the threat of imprisonment. Most people would be discouraged by that alone.
That isn’t “guts.” Overcoming being afraid of consequence is merely self interest mixed with lack of abstract thinking.