Stealing in realife seems to be more of a fluid concept that story book morals would leave one to believe. Let me know what you think of the following examples, I have encountered recently. I will say that these cases are not necessarily about me, but they are all true.
Case example number 1, would you consider it stealing or a culture of sharing when you buy a tub of Hagen Das ice cream, put your name on it to have on a special occasion, put it in the freezer and come back in a couple days only to find out it had been completely eaten and have the culprit thank-you for it. To complicate the matters you happen to have been paying room and board in this person’s house for nearly 2 years and as such eating their food.
Case example number 2, you are living amoung a family, have a bag of cookies that were given to you by a friend, unopened in your bedroom, which you leave the door locked, a week later you find that bag of cookies open. In addition, you and another housemate find sweaters missing, not the first time, but this time the housekeeper and you find them in the room of the daughter of the house, including a sweater you had ‘lost’ so long ago you had nearly forgotten about it. Family members share belongings, and you would have certainly lent them had you been asked....so it this simply a case of borowing, the way an annoying younger sibling would?
Case example number 3, you are traveling in Nicaragua with your volunteer organization and onyour first day there, eating in a restaurant, you bag, containing your passport, credit cards, money, debit card, camera and ipod is stolen by someone you only catch a glimpse of as he runs off the terrace. Based on size and shape you figure it was a teenage boy, who had been wearing very old and worn clothing. Stealing? ... or doing what is necessary to survive when you have few other options?
Case example number 4, you are an international volunteer working in Costa Rica, your desk is on the upstairs floor along with two other international volunteers, you three are the regulars in that work space, although other coworkers within the organization to occasionally use the computer in the same area. One by one each of you, the three international volunteers, have lost atleast 10, 000 colones ($20), at some point in the last month at work, you specifically have 30, 000, no one else seems to have been hit, and the area is not one where outsiders of the organization would visit. The thefts had occured over five seperate occasions. Is this stealing, or is this balancing the economic inbalance that exists between Costa Rica and other richer nations?
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yeahhhh id say the last 2 were stealing...the first two were just sorta rude....and about the last two yeah id consider them stealing it is just the question what would u do about it? like with the purse thief id ofcourse cut off my credit cards and stuff but wouldnt press charges or anythin...and the last one would be just annoying. i wouldnt do much other than try to find out who it is.
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