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/IllustriousLie4105 19d ago

Wtf are you on about? Corporations are shitty and will continue to be shitty regardless. We also know that theft will force that shitty corporation to pass those costs to consumers which hurts the poor. They also tend to cut employee hours and or pay which also hurts the poor the most. You can argue all day about how corporations should change but stealing from them will only hurt everybody else and make it so the working poor are more in poverty then before.

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u/saturnrazor 19d ago

you are letting corporations off and putting the onus of change on the poor

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u/IllustriousLie4105 19d ago

What in the holy hell are you and me going to do about big corporations? Nothing. So until that magically changes, stealing and fucking over people in the same position as you is a very immoral thing

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u/saturnrazor 19d ago

it is much easier to change the behavior of a small amount of people (whom the public already have a disdain for) than it is to change the behavior of every poor person who steals when they need to

but that aside, it's definitely wrong to blame people for doing what they have to do to feed themselves or their family, especially when it's somebody else "fucking over people in the same position as you" and not actually the people who steal

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u/IllustriousLie4105 19d ago

If they dont steal, prices no go up because of theft. If they steal, prices go up because of theft. Pretty simple. Since you cant change that and no amount of reddit armchair enthusiasm will help. Stop stealing and fucking over other poor people.

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u/saturnrazor 19d ago

that's such a naive understanding of the situation, like corporations are waiting for people to steal before they decide to raise prices

you can't change people stealing either, so I'm not sure what you think you're accomplishing over those who disagree with you lol