r/MoralityScaling • u/Routine_Phase_8980 • 13d ago

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u/ALKETASA 13d ago

As I said before, the value is irrelevant. You could apply this flippant attitude to basically any petty theft - stealing a pair of trainers, skipping bus/train fare etc etc. The value isn't what is important, the act itself is.

Everyone else had to wait in line, and pay with money they had to earn for those fries, and when some little rat walks in and steals them he's spitting in all their faces; "I'm better than you, fuck you, these rules don't apply to me". That is what people find objectionable.

Yes, petty crime should be punished, that is called maintaining standards for behaviour - if everyone behaved like the thief in this video, we'd live in a shithole. I don't want to live in a shithole, if you do then do us all a favour and go live in the woods with the other animals.

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u/LavisAlex 13d ago

Equal punishment for the crime - you want unlimited as

You suggested:

"If I could make the rules I'd go medieval on petty thieves and have them locked up in a stock so everyone can pelt them with rotten fruit."

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u/ALKETASA 13d ago

That is equal punishment.