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RE: Do you have sometimes thoughts of commiting crime like stealing?
May 15, 2023 at 10:01 am
(May 15, 2023 at 9:51 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I suspect that compulsive liars and born thieves overestimate the commonality of their personal defects.
It's not a personal defect to consider committing a crime. The defect lies in attempting it.
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RE: Do you have sometimes thoughts of commiting crime like stealing?
May 15, 2023 at 10:09 am
That's not what my gran taught me, lol.
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RE: Do you have sometimes thoughts of commiting crime like stealing?
May 15, 2023 at 10:13 am
I seem to recall that the Catholic church taught me that thinking it is as bad as doing it. A sin either way.
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RE: Do you have sometimes thoughts of commiting crime like stealing?
May 15, 2023 at 11:18 am
Ah, sin. I feel like I'm not the only atheist who doesn't think thoughtcrime is a crime.
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RE: Do you have sometimes thoughts of commiting crime like stealing?
May 15, 2023 at 11:27 am
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2023 at 11:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Highlights the difference between feeling and knowing. I know thought crime isn't crime...and yet....
Wasn't sin, though - "wickedness". My granny probably has the heaviest and most radicalized christian origins story - but - oddly enough, she was the least likely to moralize from religion. All she needed was your aspiration to be a better version of yourself, and shame. So much shame. Totally different relationship as adults. I think we wore her out so I'm counting that as a w for our side.
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RE: Do you have sometimes thoughts of commiting crime like stealing?
May 15, 2023 at 11:52 am
(May 14, 2023 at 5:34 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Stealing? Never.
Felonious assault? Frequently.
Murder? Sporadically.
Boru
This.
But add genocide
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RE: Do you have sometimes thoughts of commiting crime like stealing?
July 31, 2023 at 11:27 am
I did steal once but only because my employer refused to pay what he owed me. Back then I used to work at something outlanders know as "internet cafe" whereas in my country it was known as "computer gaming club" - a place, usually a whole apartment changed to house at least 50 personal computers where people would come and pay per hour to play different computer games. And since my boss decided he could go without paying me my monthly salary, once during the graveyard shift I disassembled the most powerful computer in the place (back then there was no PCI, it was all AGP and IDE), took the CPU, the GPU (Radeon 9550 AGP) and the RAM plates, took the whole turnover from the shift and took off. I left the whole place unlocked and allowed all the customers to play the whole night for free.
I bet my employer regrets his decision not to pay me till present day.
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