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-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoWiktionary defines it as: To take illegally, or without the owner’s permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months ago“To take ILLEGALLY-” if it wasn’t a crime, it wouldn’t be illegal, and therefore wouldn’t be stealing- it would be taking.
minus-squareUnbeelievable@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoOr without the owner’s permission; I even put it in bold.
Wiktionary defines it as: To take illegally, or without the owner’s permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
“To take ILLEGALLY-” if it wasn’t a crime, it wouldn’t be illegal, and therefore wouldn’t be stealing- it would be taking.
Or without the owner’s permission; I even put it in bold.