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Okay so I work with a lot of different people. And there is a common theme amoung the great numbers of people I come across. Many people will justify theft on some level. They either justify it as being innocuous (low value items) or having no victim (I'm stealing from a company not a person) or by seeing it as some kind of right of theirs to take something (The company/person owes me this). Even people I like and enjoy the company of at some stage justify some small theft of theirs. Seriously from what I've observed this causes no consternation to the average person, it's okay to take something that doesn't belong to you just as long as.....insert excuse here.
So without getting into my dark thoughts on humanity. Why does an act which obstensibly most people recognise as being wrongful, suddenly become right in certain (common) situations. And not talking about extreme moral inequities like, robin hood type situations. I'm talking about the everyday nicking of stuff just because....Situations like this.
Company provides food on the job, but employee doesn't like the food offered and helps themselves to a better choice from food not offered.
Work in cafe where a free morning coffee is allowed, so you have two or three instead.
Office workers nicking pens, or a whole packet of pens for use outside of work.
Office workers using the company photocopier to create copies of their kids school project/magazine etc...
So yeah. On the magnitude of criminal offences these things aren't really up there. But it's a curiosity of mine, if you will, why lowering the magnitude of something makes it right when really the act itself is no different to stealing someone's car or TV set.
So without getting into my dark thoughts on humanity. Why does an act which obstensibly most people recognise as being wrongful, suddenly become right in certain (common) situations. And not talking about extreme moral inequities like, robin hood type situations. I'm talking about the everyday nicking of stuff just because....Situations like this.
Company provides food on the job, but employee doesn't like the food offered and helps themselves to a better choice from food not offered.
Work in cafe where a free morning coffee is allowed, so you have two or three instead.
Office workers nicking pens, or a whole packet of pens for use outside of work.
Office workers using the company photocopier to create copies of their kids school project/magazine etc...
So yeah. On the magnitude of criminal offences these things aren't really up there. But it's a curiosity of mine, if you will, why lowering the magnitude of something makes it right when really the act itself is no different to stealing someone's car or TV set.