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[–] 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Problem is that you open one item to be allowed to be stolen, you then set the precedent of anything being allowed to be stolen. That’s what welfare and social programs are for.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    what you did there is called the "slippery slope fallacy"

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    The slippery slope argument is not always a fallacy. The strength of a slippery slope argument relies on the ability to show that the initial action will actually lead to the predicted outcome. The fallacy comes in when connections are drawn between unrelated concepts - an easy example of this is the argument that legalizing abortion will lead to the legalization of murder. In this case, I think it's pretty likely that making a certain item legal to steal will pave the way for more items to be legal to steal in the future. After all, who decides which items should fall under that law? I'm sure there will be plenty of people with very strong, differing opinions on the topic.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah just because stores sell food doesn't mean they should feed people for free. There are a lot of costs involved in getting food onto the shelves such as planting, growing, harvesting, transporting, packaging, and distribution, and the costs of running the store. This especially applies to small mom and pop stores.

    Same sort of thing with non-food items, track any particular item and they don't just appear on the store shelves, it takes a lot of people and effort and materials to get them there.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hence why stores should deliver unsold goods to food/supply banks instead of tossing it.

    The cost was already made, the item gets written of for not being sold, still does some good in the end.

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