Let's see now. All stores build in a "loss margin" on everything they sell to cover the cost of shoplifting. So, everything you and I costs more because someone else has decided to "liberate" a product. Since you and I are paying for their behavior, bottom line - aren't they stealing from you and me ? Don't know about you, but I really can't afford to be "buying" too much for folks I don't know. You ?
Haha . . . good points, good points. I personally shoplift (especially from big coorporations.) Money sucks anyways. People are too damn materialistic. Share the wealth, heh.
Shoplifting can also be considered materialistic though because your stealing material items in the first place. I really could care less who steals what but i'm trying to get rid of my material possesions not gain more so sl is a nono for me
I think that shoplifting is wrong. Whether you are taking from a big coorperation, a local buisness or a persons home it all seems like stealing to me. The fact that these companies are big evil facelss greedy coorperations, is irrelevant to me. I beleive that there is a right way and a wrong way to fight this stuff. Sure they steal from the people who buy their products at ridiculously high prices, and they rob the people who work in sweatshops to make their goods, but that doesn't give someone the right to steal from them. There are other ways to fight the system besides fighting fire with fire. That is the attitude that causes so much violence and gets us into wars. I believe it was Gandhi who said "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"
I believe stealing is wrong unless you absolutely need it and are broke at the time... Kind of like how N.O. decalred martial law because people were stealing plasma TVs instead of food/medicine.
