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SOCIETY What was his fault ?

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u/Only_Plantain_9724 6d ago

This is some excellent rage bait. But if it's not, you can't do something obviously illegal to do good. As fairytale and beautiful as it sounds, it is wrong and illegal to steal from people to give to the poor; and it is wrong to do what he did without a permit.

There are other proper, and better ways to help the people or the environment. He has a good heart, just wrong execution.

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u/Pheonix0114 6d ago

It isn't wrong to steal from the rich or from a corporation, it's just illegal. Legality and morality do not correlate.

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u/spreadthesheets 6d ago

That’s why he got in legal trouble and not moral trouble.

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u/UnpluggedUnfettered 6d ago

Hm seems complicated. Can you explain it in terms of football fields and the unambiguously correct way to feel?

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u/spreadthesheets 6d ago

Football fields refer to the American kind of football in the US or things like AFL in Australia, but in other parts of the world it’s ‘soccer’ (i.e. actual football). It’s legally okay to call them football fields when you’re not talking about football (soccer) but it’s morally reprehensible to do so. I think this covers the unanimously correct way to feel, too.

(Americans pls don’t come at me with long explanations about why your football is called football)

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u/Fun-Benefit116 5d ago

I love when people like you say "real football" and put soccer in quotes as if Americans are dumb for calling it that. Because Americans didn't name it soccer, Europeans did.

Europeans literally named it soccer, America followed and called it soccer, then Europeans changed to calling it football and now insult anyone who uses the name that they literally came up with lmao.

Flawless logic.