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So busting people who are shoplifting items that they either need to survive or items that they can sell to survive to say, pay rent, because our capitalist sys

• wahern 4y ago
  Ever been in a store dealing with significant amounts of shoplifting, such as basically all chain stores in San Francisco these days? The more the shoplifting, the more stuff ends up behind locked cabinets. In some stores it's so bad even candy is locked up. Now consider what happens when convenience stores stop being convenient. People with money stop patronizing them. They reduce their stock of items. They close. And now people, including poor people, no longer have a convenient place to shop. Everybody has options. Shoplifting is very rarely, if ever, the best option available to someone on the ropes. It's just often the more convenient option, until it stops being convenient for them and everybody else.
• unreal37 4y ago
  I once saw a guy stealing a Moleskine notebook. Maybe that notebook can be resold, and he uses the money to pay rent? Or more likely, he uses it to buy drugs. So preventing the shoplifting might just save his life from a drug overdose. It's hard to say that stealing is clearly right in almost any scenario. It's almost always anti-social.
  • frlmaowtf 4y ago
    What's the law called where you can't tell if someone is being sarcastic or actually thinks the ridiculous things they say aloud? "Stopping someone from stealing a notebook prevented a drug overdose death". I hope you and folks like you realize that encountering rhetoric like yours only reinforces the thought that some people are just really out to feel like they have power over others, and some folks are capable of amazing gymnastics to support the cruelty of most Western capital societies rather than confront the notion that maybe you have no god damn idea why someone was stealing a notebook and maybe just maybe it doesn't fucking matter even a tiny little bit.
    • heavyset_go 4y ago
      It's Poe's law.