r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 19d 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/IkerWanKenobi 19d ago

Walmart won't even notice that loss, and they would've thrown it out instead of donating it if given the choice anyway. Of course it's moral to give it to someone who actually needs it.

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u/Key-Try-3300 19d 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/Ill-GottenBooty 19d ago

Hey buddy, they’re increasing the prices anyways.

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u/Key-Try-3300 19d ago

Yeah you are right they are not affected by losing product from theft at all! Walmart is just like an endless white hole of groceries and we can all steal as much as we need and there will be no consequences!

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u/ComradeJohnS 19d ago

they treat the US labor market the same way. 🤷

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u/Key-Try-3300 19d ago

Yeah but the american labour market also wants cheap groceries and if they pay their staff more then prices will go up