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From: Jim on 28 Apr 2010 01:20
Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> The same goes for sufficiently rich people. I don't see anything
> immoral about stealing something from Bill Gates. It may be
> impractical to arrange the legal system to accommodate that, but
> it's not a moral issue.

So how much better off than you does someone or some company have to be
before it becomes morally ok to steal from them?

Please.

Theft is theft.

Jim
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From: Richard Tobin on 28 Apr 2010 03:39
In article <1jhmubm.154pvvsbp0z19N%usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>,
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

>> For them, losing a phone is not like an average person
>> losing a phone. It doesn't do any harm in terms of the loss of an
>> object, because they have so much anyway.

>Why does it matter what they have? Why does it matter what the loss mean
>to them

Because the only reason stealing is wrong is the harm it does to the
person it's taken from. Why else would it be wrong?

>So if for instance you stole Bill Gates wedding ring, it wouldn't be
>immoral as he could just buy another?

Presumably it would have some sentimental value that would be harder
to replace.

-- Richard
From: Richard Tobin on 28 Apr 2010 03:41
In article <1jhnad0.x3icf5rhm0wN%jim(a)magrathea.plus.com>,
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:

>So how much better off than you does someone or some company have to be
>before it becomes morally ok to steal from them?

I don't see how the difficulty of quantifying something makes it false.

I can't give you a precise definition of when green becomes blue, but
some things are definitely green and some are definitely blue.

-- Richard
From: Jim on 28 Apr 2010 03:59
On 2010-04-28, Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> In article <1jhnad0.x3icf5rhm0wN%jim(a)magrathea.plus.com>,
> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
>
>>So how much better off than you does someone or some company have to be
>>before it becomes morally ok to steal from them?
>
> I don't see how the difficulty of quantifying something makes it false.

I repeat: theft is theft.

Jim
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From: Richard Tobin on 28 Apr 2010 04:10
In article <slrnhtfqn4.16u1.jim(a)wotan.magrathea.local>,
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
>I repeat: theft is theft.

Which doesn't make it wrong.

I think I've said all I have to say on this now.

-- Richard
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