Would you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?
the_frumious_bandersnatch @ the_frumious_bandersnatch @programming.dev Posts 4Comments 43Joined 2 yr. ago
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I would collect taxes if I held the power of physical violence over a community. All taxation is theft, amiright?
But seriously, stealing is a crime because prevailing thought within the community is that taking something that someone else has a claim on is wrong. If the prevailing thought was that it was not wrong, it wouldn't be against the law, but we also would call it something else... Like taxation.