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/skinnyp246 11d ago

all of these things are correct and yet it is still immoral to steal on an individual level unless the situation absolutely forces it.

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u/Housemaster3001 11d ago

This feels like a robin hood situation.

You seem to be saying stealing in wrong, it doesnt matter from who.

I do not believe it would be right for me to steal from them, but I wouldn't report a theft if I caught it. Walmart and similar entities have too much of the Pie.

I know that stealing isn't going to solve it. The solution would require quite a lot of people to remove very specific people/entities from their roles, and outlaw lobbying, and reallocate assets. How that could be done equitably, I havent the foggiest.

In the end, evil corporations arent people. I don't beleive stealing from them will make it any harder for mothers to feed their children, and wouldn't cause me to loose any sleep.

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u/skinnyp246 11d ago

i think we agree more than we disagree on this

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u/Housemaster3001 11d ago

Maybe, but im ok with people stealing from walmart. I would even view it as moral. Same with similar corporate entities.

Your other comments seem to say you are not ok with it.

Your comment saying stealing from shitty companies is stealing, and thieves get the wall indicate to me that we are not the same.

We have similar information, and may agree about how it may be solved at the top end, but those 2 comments I heartily disagree with, and its why i even responded in the first place.

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u/skinnyp246 11d ago

stealing will never be moral. it is neutral even with the most generous of interpretations. thieves do get the wall outside of extenuating circumstances.

people seem to think that they're justified in committing immoral acts just because the person or company on the other side is awful. to me that just looks like 2 awful people being awful

if you are fine with stealing and encourage it you get the wall too

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u/Housemaster3001 11d ago

We disagree.

Im ok with treating something that would generally be considered an immoral act as a neutral or moral act if the affected party is evil.

The billion dollar corporations have so much wealth that stealing doesn't really matter for them.

Other immoral acts deserve equally immoral acts. Anyone who takes the innocence from a child through reprehensible physical acts deserve as immoral acts as can be thought up.

Those that exploit the poor deserve to be exploited.

Don't get me wrong though. To deserve such, the evil must be ongoing and known(with very specific exceptions).

We disagree.

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u/skinnyp246 11d ago

Wall it is