> My moral intuition says that when deciding a question like this, one should imagine that the valuable object belongs to society and disregard who actually get

> My moral intuition says that when deciding a question like this, one should imagine that the valuable object belongs to society and disregard who actually gets the benefit. How do you decide when to apply this kind of thinking? For example, if you believe I'm making poor use of my car and you think you could do more good with it, does that make it OK to steal it, on the basis that humanity still has the same number of cars and now one of them is being used more effectively? I'm not saying it's wrong to pick a dollar up off the floor, just that I'm not convinced the reason it is OK is the reason you gave. I think the reason it is OK to pick a dollar up off the floor is because that dollar basically belongs to nobody at that point. Casey Neistat has a good video on this topic: The Ethics of Stealing a Bike ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW6gGyfxn1U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW6gGyfxn1U ) where he argues that it's never OK to steal someone's bike, but it is OK to steal "nobody's bike", i.e. a bike that has clearly been abandoned.