I think theft can be simply defined as: "Taking something that isn't yours without permission." On the plus side, the various rationalizations people come up w

I think theft can be simply defined as: "Taking something that isn't yours without permission." On the plus side, the various rationalizations people come up with to justify theft of creative works shows that they have at least some bit of conscience left. Teacher: "Billy I gave you an 'F' on your paper because Bobby already passed in that exact same paper." Billy: "But I wrote the paper! Bobby must have stolen/copied it and passed it in first!" Teacher: "But Billy, you still have your original paper so how is that theft?"