Say you're at work and walk by someone's desk. They have a small box full of rubberbands. You take one and no one sees you do it. You don't plan on telling anyone and no one will ever find out... is this stealing? is it a sin? What is the minimum one has to take in order for it to be considered stealing?
2006-08-03 04:26:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
- try this sometime... go into someones room and take something real little that they wouldn't notice and then think about what you're doing. it will help you decide
2006-08-03 04:31:36 · update #1
The Law of Karma is this: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The Law works on many levels , and the one that matters most is the emotional level....and this is within ones own MIND. Ones actions will be judged by oneself relative to what one believes, and to go against ones own judgment is the "sin". There is no rationalization at a cognitive level that will impact the emotional consequences of going against ones own beliefs.
2006-08-03 04:40:15 · answer #1 · answered by docjp 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is theft. I wouldn't take it, because it's not mine to take. I guess people would laugh at me for being so goody-toe-shoes-ish but if you NEVER take anything that's not yours to take, you have a very definite guideline, whereas, if you take small thingsm you have to categorise things, and decide at which point to stop, There's a lot more margin for error that way. E.g. you steal an elastic band. Next time you might take a paper clip. The time after you might take a few sheets of paper. Then some more paper. Then a pack of paper. Then some pencils... see it escalate??? It's like you develop an immunity over time, so you're progressively less and less bothered by small thefts, and thus they grow.
It's easier to never take anything at all.
2006-08-03 13:42:36 · answer #2 · answered by old_but_still_a_child 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RJA... I love that answer... f'n hilarious! And I have to agree- stuff around the office that's purchased by the company is pretty much community property, and available for the use of everyone. It's just one rubber band out of a box of many, but knowing me and my stupid guilty conscience, I'd probably inform the keeper of the rubber bands after the fact that I indeed boosted one from the box anyway. That way if they happened to see me and I was unaware of it, I wouldn't have to worry about word getting out and enduring the snickers and points and people saying, "There goes the rubber band-it."
2006-08-03 14:16:25 · answer #3 · answered by ?princesshousewife? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look I have to agree with RJA..... it is company property. As far as a sin goes.... Naw, I don't think so.
I think that there is no minimum for stealing. If it doesn't belong to you just leave it alone.
What you said about going into someones room.... well I don't think that is a good idea. However my brother & I decided to be roomates, I went in his room all the time and took stuff without asking.
2006-08-03 06:19:03 · answer #4 · answered by couriousinms 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're at work, the employer probably paid for the rubber band so you're as entitled to it as that other person.
But suppose you go to put the rubber band on your wrist and it breaks, are you guilty of destroying company property?
And If you shoot the rubber band at the other employee and they lose an eye, just like our elementary school teachers warned us, is the company liable? (after all, it was their rubber band!)
And wouldn't it be funny if after the whole lawsuit the person admitted that they really didn't lose their eye, because it was already a glass eye because someone had shot them with a rubber band in elementary school? Ha. ha.
And wouldn't it be funny if after all of that, rubber band makers had to start putting warning labels on their product, so that for all eternity everyone who bought rubber bands would see one of those corny labels like the one's on those little packages of silica gel which say, "Do not eat" even though anyone old enough to read would know not to eat silica gel and those who can't read are probably the most likely to eat it?
2006-08-03 04:42:41 · answer #5 · answered by rj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Common sense you ask for anything and everything you take. In the office, taking a rubber band isn't a problem. Everyone must know how to share office supplies. If it's that easy to get into hell, then the doors to heaven would be open for just about anyone who did something remotely good.
2006-08-03 06:34:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically yes it is but I would have no problem with it. Now if it was a box of $1,000 bills then that is different but for rubber bands..no I see no problem. If you took a handful of rubberbands without asking I would consider it really tacky and stupid
2006-08-03 04:38:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And if you shoot the band at someone is it considered to be assault with a deadly rubber band?
The second part of going in someone's room is not respecting privacy. Dont do it.
If you really need somethings from another ask first.
Sounds like you have too much time on your hands.
Get to work.
2006-08-03 04:32:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose if they really liked their rubber bands it would be. But if you know that they wouldn't care, and if you asked they would let you take it, no it's not stealing. But even if they would get mad, it's not that big of a deal. There are people out there killing and torturing people....you snagged a rubber band, I think your doing OK as a person...
2006-08-03 05:44:24 · answer #9 · answered by Scoot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Taking without permission is considered stealing.
2006-08-03 06:53:40 · answer #10 · answered by john p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋