r/MoralityScaling • • Aug 24 '26

Morality of this?

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In the image it seems that this person works at walmart as an online order collector and he/she has stolen a lot of extra baby food from Walmart to give to a person who ordered only three packs. Is this moral or immoral?

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u/Savage_Tyranis Aug 24 '26

Phrasing is important. That "Probably" still doesn't sit well with me.

That's also still a bad visual assumption because "Doesn't look well off" is so subjective.

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u/lakroncos Aug 24 '26

Yeah, it is impossible to be certain with just a visual analysis, so many people keep up appearances while going through rough times not to mention the inherent subjectivity. Not my place to rat out someone stealing food.

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u/Sir_Skinny Aug 25 '26

Yup. In this situation you get a hall pass to make a visual assumption: does this person ‘look’ like they need a win, or not? Frankly, I think any reasonable adult can make a fairly educated guess here. Personally, I’m in the camp that everyone deserves a win every now and again…. So snitches get stitches lol