i recommend taking some deep breaths. Language is a construct. Mugging: 1939 as "a violent physical robbery;" Stealing: Old Frisian stela "to steal, rob one

i recommend taking some deep breaths. Language is a construct. Mugging: 1939 as "a violent physical robbery;" Stealing: Old Frisian stela "to steal, rob one of," tracing it back to proto-Indo-European still has "rob" in the etymology for "steal". I am using EO because i don't want to go to my bookshelf right now. you can "steal" an apple from a store and that's not a "robbery" but if you mug someone and rob them it's still "theft", they were still "stolen from". In a thread about universal truths (or not) this is amusing.