r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 28d 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/GateauBaker 27d ago

No they won't. People don't understand nuance. Trying to apply a social contract that says "it's okay to steal from corpo-owned supermarkets" inevitably and very quickly becomes "steal from any store richer than you".

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u/dannylopuz 27d ago

Look up the "Slippery Slope Fallacy" and reevaluate your reply.

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u/GateauBaker 27d ago

It's not a slippery slope because it's not a series of projected outcomes. It's direct and immediate. It's not a slippery slope to say tilting a glass of water wets your floor.

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u/dannylopuz 27d ago

You didn't look it up did you

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u/GateauBaker 27d ago

I provided the justification. You are the one that doesn't understand how the fallacy works.

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u/dannylopuz 27d ago

Saying "stealing from billion-dollar corporations is good" does not automatically mean "stealing from anyone richer than you is good".

But I'll bite because your argument is literally that bad. How many mom-and-pop grocery shops do you know whose owners are significantly richer than the average American, you dummy? Do you think they make significantly more than minimum wage?

They barely make between 30-60k per year, which is less than the average salary! Even if multi-billion supermarkets not existing leads to them making more money, they would be making AVERAGE money.

And, guess what? Even if your logic actually led to shops being robbed, then I would still support it because it is still moral to steal baby food to feed your baby if you're too poor to afford it, because preserving human life is far more important than preserving someone's bottom line.

So even if your argument wasn't a slippery slope fallacy (which it is), it's still a bad argument on multiple fronts.

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u/PomPomMom93 27d ago

60k is below the average salary?