How can you possess something you have no control over? We stole land from Native Americans, from Mexicans. We buy meaningless crap when people are starving. How do you define theft?
2006-10-26 08:02:40 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How does something belong to me? Because I exchange money? My own body doesn't even belong to me because I can be raped or put into slavery. You say you own something because the law protects you, but the law only maintains order. How do own something in the first place?
2006-10-26 08:09:53 · update #1
I'm not calling anyone a theft. I just think theft does not exists except in our imaginations.
2006-10-26 08:10:52 · update #2
Of course I'm being subjective.
2006-10-26 08:35:03 · update #3
Defining anything as a crime is subjective. Therefore, anyone can consider any act a crime in their own mind. Whether there's punishment for a "crime" depends on the judgement of the strongest force present when the act is declared a crime, whether it's the government or a pissed off husband.
Your statements about your question prove subjectivity. Some consider land as stolen from the Mexicans or Indians, but do not consider the same act of acquistion by the Mexicans or Indians as thievery.
2006-10-26 08:23:19 · answer #1 · answered by freebird 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Theft is taking something that doesn't belong to you, pure and simple. Buying meaningless crap when people are starving may be the best decision, but it isn't theft. No one is under any obligation to help anyone--it is a choice. Hopefully, more people will choose to start helping and the world will become a better place.
2006-10-26 15:07:41 · answer #2 · answered by Jensenfan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theft is taking something without paying for it. The land we won from the Mexicans was paid for with blood. The land we took from the Indians was won in conquest. That's how empires are built. We can feel sorry for these people, but would you really want to give it back and lose your country? Not gonna happen.
2006-10-26 15:08:14 · answer #3 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is subjective, what about someone stealing a piece of fruit to feed a starving family member? Big difference between that and some guy stealing your car
2006-10-26 15:06:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You still know it to be fundamentally wrong in your heart. Just the fact that you mentioned the plight of the Native American tells me you think it was wrong so where is the subjectivity?
Morality is universal with only very small deviance by those who willfully convince themselves of it.
2006-10-26 15:07:18 · answer #5 · answered by Josh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How is buying stuff while people starve theft?
2006-10-26 15:04:46 · answer #6 · answered by JerseyRick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theft is only theft, if your heart is thieving
2006-10-26 15:05:13 · answer #7 · answered by Jibba Jabba 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is subjective, but more accurately it's inter-subjective.
2006-10-26 15:07:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋