In my opinion, America not being okay with social safety nets is not equivalent to shop lifting being okay. It seems to me either: * Americans care about shopl

In my opinion, America not being okay with social safety nets is not equivalent to shop lifting being okay. It seems to me either: * Americans care about shoplifting but not social safety nets and it would mean that society has implicitly decided that some shoplifting folks may not get the support they need. * Americans care about shoplifting and social safety nets enough to force political change. I think what doesn't seem okay to me is to say, "Americans care about shoplifting but not social safety nets... but we are going to make an end run around what society thinks and allow shoplifting as a solution to the social safety net problem".