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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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You're still doing something wrong. There's a definite need for food, but stealing says you're more important than society, and that's a bad start.
Leverage churches. They care for the hungry, of anyone does, right?
There's an argument to be made that grocery consolidation has led to de facto monopolies on the food distribution business and that these grocery chains have already broken the social contract by charging more than fair value through their monopolistic positions.
Canada needs to give the Competition Bureau more power to break up the telecommunications industry, the groceries industry, and to shut down cooperation in our airline industry. Instead of policies that protect consolidation, Canada should look towards protectionist policies to protect against US expansion.
I don't see an effective argument here for breaking criminal law.
Religious people are doubly damned: thou shalt not steal, right?
Yeah. Monopolies are bad. They were bad 10 years ago and they never stopped being bad. But at best the "steal from monopolies because they're evil" is vigilantism, and still a crime.
We do not get to pick and choose the laws we follow. If we could, then we give the monopolies every justification to keep going, and effectively some dirt bag thief subjugates all our rights.
This is not the way.
If society does not provide for you, then you have no moral obligation to prop it up.
If prayer and visiting church were to be made illegal tomorrow, would you stop?
There are multiple aspects and layers to this issue. Both of your points can be true at the same time - and I think they are