Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.
Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.
This particular tack definitely seems to be the main flavor of responses to my comment at this point.
It is a really strange logical conclusion that many of you have arrived at.
What it sounds like you’re saying is that if the theft is morally correct, then it is somehow no longer theft and is perfectly justified. That is a very strange argument to make in the first place.
That is not how morality works. That is not how anything works.
If a starving person steals bread, they may have a morally compelling justification for their actions. We can debate whether that theft was ethically permissible under those circumstances. But they still committed theft. The act itself does not magically stop being theft because we understand or sympathize with the reason behind it.
The distinction between whether an action is understandable, justified, or morally excusable has been debated since the time of the Greeks.