• Tb0n3
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    1 year ago

    Just because somebody is stealing food doesn’t mean they have to steal to live. Some people are just assholes.

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      Just because somebody stole food because they’re an asshole doesn’t mean that everybody who steals food is an asshole.

      We don’t actually know which is true here, but we do know that it’s far more likely someone is stealing groceries because the wealth inequality horrorshow has grown even more perverse in the last year.

      Nevertheless, rather than defending an unnamed person from potentially reprehensible police, you defended the police and an unnamed retail store from a potentially reprehensible person.

      I hope you’ve got shares in a grocery chain because it would be deeply pitiful if you weren’t even doing this out of self-interest.

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      Call me crazy but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt before assuming the worst when I don’t know their situation.

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        1 year ago

        Don’t👏commit👏crimes👏

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          If only you could stack “wage theft” on the back of a dodge for a social media photo op and brag about how the criminal behind it is being refused bail.

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            Being a criminal is literally immoral.

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              Those African American people during Jim Crow and segregation in the south sure were immoral when they committed such criminal acts as using the wrong drinking fountain and sitting on the good part of the bus.

              All of those Jewish criminals during Nazi Germany sure were immoral for I dont know, existing maybe?

              One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

              • Martin Luther King Jr.
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                  You literally just said that being a criminal is immoral. Your statement was factually and objectively wrong so I just wanted to point that out.

                  The fact that you are mad is amusing. I will make sure to block you so I don’t accidentally try to present you with facts and hurt your feelings in the future. Have fun you angry little thing.

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      We will never be able to end crime if we continue to treat crime as a personal failing.

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        Correct. We will never be able to end crime. It’s kind of part of the human condition.