Why shoplifting is okay

It's not smart to go along with someone just because he's your friend or because you don't want to be left out. Follow your conscience say: CON-shens , and don't do anything that would hurt others. Do what you know is right.

If someone is caught stealing, you could get in trouble just because you were there with him when it happened.

Some kids who steal once might do it a second and third time, until it becomes a habit. Repeat stealers often act in other bad ways, too. They may lie, fight, cheat, or write graffiti. They might ignore rules and disrespect other people and their belongings.

But even if stealing has become a habit, kids who steal can change their ways. Kids sometimes make mistakes, but there are ways to get back on the right track. Kids can ask adults to help them. Parents, counselors, and other adults can help kids with troubles that may have led them to steal in the first place.

Kids can learn right from wrong, get better at self-control, and learn to solve problems without stealing. When kids are honest and follow what they know is right, they feel happier and a whole lot better about themselves. Learning how to get what they need — without stealing — can be a big relief. Larger text size Large text size Regular text size.

What Kind of Stealing Is Wrong? Why Do Kids Steal? Stealing has serious consequences say: CON-seh-kwen-sez because it hurts everyone: Stealing causes a big problem for a family when the thief is caught. Store owners have to spend more money to protect their things, which makes prices go up for paying customers. Kids sometimes don't trust each other with their belongings. People don't feel as safe when they're worried about someone stealing.

Stealing can even lead to violence. Some kids carry weapons to protect themselves from other kids who may want to take their jewelry or clothing. Moreover, a confrontation within the store risks harming not only store staff but also customers, so employees are almost certainly instructed by their managers to do nothing.

Because of this law, California is extending an open invitation to anyone to walk in and take. It is not just pharmacies that are being ransacked. Sadly, this may have little effect on shoplifting, given that most of these thefts are by individuals, rather than groups, and it will still be up to police and prosecutors to charge these as felonies.

What is needed is a change to the state law that makes shoplifting at a much lower dollar level a felony, to provide adequate incentives to individuals not to commit these crimes. Crime is rising almost everywhere in California, including violent crime. Homicides in California jumped 31 percent last year, making the deadliest year since The 2, homicides in represent an increase of over Homicides in Los Angeles rose 40 percent to , and they rose 35 percent to in San Francisco.

He believes that the shoplifting episodes are a response to what those people perceive as an experienced or anticipated "unfair, personally meaningful loss".

This might include anything from losing a TV show, to problems with an intimate relationship or a child with an illness, he says. And in many cases, when caught, their behaviour doesn't make sense to them. He relates the story of a top lawyer who stole a tube of toothpaste from a chemist in the same building as his law firm.

These are intelligent people who virtually never understand why they did what they did. And, he says, there is usually a symbolic meaningfulness to the item being stolen. He describes one lady who stole items that she subsequently donated to a charity shop. One of those items was a wrench. He says the woman didn't understand why she took the wrench but when quizzed about what was going on in her life at the time, she said that her husband, a mechanic, had cancer.

Recent research carried out by Cupchik in North America indicates that more doctors, nurses and police officers have been involved in shoplifting than any other profession. They don't process how to handle the experience of loss. The most common hypothetical perfect victim is The Downtrodden Business Owner.

The shitty-apartment-renting, poverty stricken, unpaid-bills-having business owner makes up such a tiny, barely visible percent of actual real life company owners, it actually pains me to give this strange desperate argument page space. Regardless, the attempt to personify a company is so weird to me. So I mean, yeah I would prioritize a person having a meal or getting Advil over a company keeping one of its many investments on a shelf.

To me, a need can be relaxation, a night out with a friend, a book, etc. Rather, I want to simplify my argument and say that company theft is good because paywalls are bad, full stop.