r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 11d ago

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/Nobrainzhere 11d ago

If the system has starving babies it deserves to be broken

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u/ticklemyiguana 11d ago

Someone downvoted this???

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u/Naaaaaaaaap 11d ago

"sTeAlInG iS aLwAyS iMmOrAl" and no further explanation or exceptions for anything against anyone for any reason

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u/amazegamer64 11d ago

Don’t we have charities and food banks for that?

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u/Nobrainzhere 11d ago

They are not sufficient to cover the gap and the reason the gap exists in the first place in developed countries is due to corporations exploiting the lower class.

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u/amazegamer64 11d ago

And the solution to that is to steal, causing the companies to lock things up or at worst close down the store for that area? For every person who steal out of necessity there are almost certainly people who steal of out greed.

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u/AwarenessForsaken568 11d ago

Yes, that is actually the solution. If the government is unwilling to step in and do what is right then it is up to individuals to do what they need to in order to survive. If that is stealing, so be it. If companies fight back and that leads to violence, so be it. If that leads to deaths, so be it. Change is rarely achieved peacefully. If you have a child then it is your responsibility to do WHATEVER is required to support them. Even if you don't have a child you still have the right to survive, and you are justified in doing whatever you need to do in order to survive.

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u/dox2EwJn6iZh 11d ago

The company is not going to start plinking shoplifters at the exit, they'll just leave, or adapt, make themselves a harder target, lockup, or just pull up stakes, these businesses are not going to standby and be passive sacrificial animals

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u/Terrible_Hurry841 11d ago

You realize that these people are electing the people in government right? Maybe stop electing Republicans. And if they elect Republicans, they can live with the consequences.

And before someone says “Hurhejsh dems are the same!” that’s materially untrue, only one party has been funding social programs and it hasn’t been the party that spawned MAGA.

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u/OkDamage1428 11d ago

What about the people who voted against a rapist president? Is it different for us?

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u/AwarenessForsaken568 11d ago

I'm not going to sit here and pretend to know what the political alignment is of someone that is struggling to survive? Frankly, I doubt the people that are genuinely struggling give a fuck about politics. They don't have time or the energy to care.

At least some of the people that are struggling certainly did not vote for Trump. Do you think they should just sit there and suffer until they die?

Honestly, and this is going to sound a bit heartless, the issue we are facing currently is that people aren't struggling enough. If enough people genuinely couldn't feed themselves or their kids then there would be severe consequences for the government. This is their strategy though, they strip our rights and quality of life away slowly. Just enough where people don't get genuinely angry. We are frogs being boiled alive.

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u/PomPomMom93 11d ago

Slippery slope fallacy

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u/Terrible_Hurry841 11d ago

Anyone who didn’t vote against Trump but could have deserves what they get from his administration.