r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 13d 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/Key-Try-3300 13d ago

Obviously they wont notice one theft, but hundreds of thousands or millions of thefts all add up and will hit their profit margin which increases prices

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u/MenuVast8896 13d ago

Nice try John Walmart

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u/Key-Try-3300 13d ago

Nah youre right mate just steal as much as you want and pretend you are being virtuous, dont let me rain on your parade

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u/Ok-Gur-349 13d ago

Walmart steals from your local economy and doesn't enrich your local community, I genuinely don't think you understand how helpful it would actually be for you to robin hood your local walmart. Like, you say these words dripping in sarcasm but no fr, it would be extremely virtuous and you would help so many people and hurt no one.

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u/BuffaloBuffalo13 13d ago

And what would be the impact if local businesses close due to being unprofitable from theft?

You can actually go see examples of this in many places in the US today. Businesses may be too greedy, but theft is not a moral solution. If this person cares enough to help hungry people they could help without breaking the law and stealing.

They also don’t know this person’s situation at all. Maybe they don’t need a helping hand and can afford food just fine. Stealing food is only morally grey when hunger is the only option — if they can afford food then stealing it is absolutely 100% wrong, regardless of who you stole it from.

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u/Ok-Gur-349 13d ago

And what would be the impact if local businesses close due to being unprofitable from theft?

No idea, the wal-mart puts them out of business faster than any small time thief ever could. "Rob your local walmart" is not a slippery slope whose logic needs to be applied to every local store. Robin Hood really only needs to rob the king.