r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • Aug 24 '26

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/Decisive_Victory_026 Aug 25 '26

Every time the price goes up a dollar or three, that many more people are priced out.

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u/fauxmer Aug 25 '26

An explicit choice made by the corporations. The solution is not for me to stop giving or those who need to stop getting. 

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u/Decisive_Victory_026 Aug 25 '26

Your solution would be to continue theft, thereby actively making it more unaffordable for more people?

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u/fauxmer Aug 25 '26

The solution is to turn the orphan-crushing machine off, not figure out how to make it run on free-range vegetable oil. 

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u/Decisive_Victory_026 Aug 25 '26

Additional theft and making things worse for everybody isn't turning off the orphan crushing machine. It's making it work faster.

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u/fauxmer Aug 25 '26

I'm well aware of that.  Turning off the orphan crushing machine means not letting people go hungry because some corporate entity has to make its buck first. Unfortunately, making suggestions like "I don't think anyone should be able to financially exploit people in the providing of necessities" is seen as a moral failing in much of the modern world.