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Shoplifting and shoplifting to drive a shop out of business are about as unrelated as threatening someone with a knife and stabbing them are.
by Retra 9y ago
Shoplifting and shoplifting to drive a shop out of business are about as unrelated as threatening someone with
a knife and stabbing them are.
- eikenberry 9y agoYou don't get how shoplifting works. One person doesn't shoplift enough to drive a shop out of business. 1000 people taking small crap they think doesn't matter drives the shop out of business. It is a cumulative thing where many small crimes build up to one crippling one.
- Retra 9y agoDon't try to tell me I don't understand obvious shit. If you're shoplifting from someone who's experiencing a shoplifting epidemic, you're doing more damage than you would by shoplifting from someone who wouldn't even notice. The severity of the crime is context-dependent. Not all shoplifting is equally bad. That's what I'm saying. Feel free to engage in some black-and-white thinking and disagree. But don't tell me I don't "get how shoplifting works."
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> If you're shoplifting from someone who's experiencing a shoplifting epidemic, you're doing more damage than you would by shoplifting from someone who wouldn't even notice. Except when you're shoplifting, you don't know whether you're the only one who does that to this shop, or the hundredth thief this day. If you had enough knowledge to know the theft load of shops in the area, you'd pretty much by definition be orchestrating higher-level crimes, with better margins.
- Retra 9y agoI didn't say shoplifting wasn't a crime. I said it is sometimes a victimless crime. It doesn't really matter if you're aware of that when you shoplift. I also don't know why you think someone who's "smart enough to shoplift" would automatically be running some criminal syndicate if they can lookup shoplifting statistics in their area.
- __bjoernd 9y ago"I'm first going to check if this business can afford me stealing things." -- no shoplifter. Ever.
- icebraining 9y agoEhh, I wouldn't say that. Obviously they're not checking the quarterly income reports, but I know shoplifters who steal from large chains but not from mom-and-pop stores.
- loco5niner 9y agoTurn them in.
- icebraining 9y agoEven if I wanted - which I don't - how would I do that? It's not like they do it when I'm with them.
- Can_Not 9y agoThis. Don't bother finding out why he was stealing or look for ways to fix society. Just throw your friend under the bus.
- tyingq 9y agoI did it back in the day. Sleeping in my car, hungry, and I stole some candy bars from a grocery store. Throwing me under the bus wouldn't have been terribly productive. I knew it was wrong, but hunger is a powerful motivator. I picked a big chain on purpose. Doesn't make it right, but I did try to consider to impact of my choices. Going to jail wouldn't have made me somehow remorseful. It would have just made me bitter. I totally get the thought pattern, but living it is different than talking about it.