Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.
Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.
You sound well-spoken, yet you’re doing what everyone else is doing. You’re encouraging a set of circumstances that somehow negates the fact that it’s theft.
A starving man stealing bread so he doesn’t starve to death is still committing theft. By the very definition of the word, it is theft. Theft is, in itself, a form of wrongdoing.
Again, I fully agree that we can justify it morally under certain circumstances.
What I don’t understand is where the disconnect is. Do you genuinely disagree that it’s theft?
No, it is breaking a law, which is not necessarily wrongdoing. As I said, there are many unjust laws. Laws are not the arbiter of morality.
Since you said it can be justified morally under certain circumstances, but still consider it wrongdoing, this might just be a case of semantics. Something that is morally justified cannot also be considering wrongdoing to me.
So yes, it is theft. That alone doesn’t tell me whether or not it’s wrong. In this specific case, the data center thefts, I agree it is wrong of them to take items that are not theirs for the purpose of profiting from them. However, they are committing theft against something that itself constantly commits far greater theft by its very nature, not to mention great harm to the economy and environment. So it’s bad things happening to bad people, which I am not going to object to like I would if it happened to someone innocent. There are degrees of wrongness.