Rob said:
Technically, I believe no, but it is very morally wrong, ESPICALLY an expensive item like a laptop.
You are wrong. Remember that article a few days ago someone posted in a thread? About mac users more intelligent than PC users... I am starting to doubt that, unless all of you are 15, who don't know any better yet. Educated people don't steal... have you looked at the prison demographics?
Ok ok, this is move out day on campus... I don't know how many of you are in school right now or how many of you have been to school (college) and I hope that is where your answers come from.
Its move out day on campus! Everyones stuff is EVERYWHERE. People set things down for just a moment to go and check something out. They start moving their stuff out of their building... Im pretty sure the person who lost that iBook is pretty ticked off someone stole it. Why the Kibbles and Bits do people steal? Its not yours, don't touch it. Your cousin needs to learn something about living in a society and so do the rest of you if you believe its ok to just take expensive things from people when they leave them lying around.
But because you can pick it up and put it in your backpack its ok to take it, however if someone say.. left the keys in the car and left it running in an empty parking lot it is not ok to take it, and 90% of you wouldn't. I hope to god that there is tracking software on that machine, and if he turned it on and connected to the internet someone will be looking for him and it.
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No one just leaves an ibook around, but I am sure all of you have looked around and left something of value sitting in the open at a distance or where you cannot see it for a short period of time so you can check something else out, or to respond to something in need. How would you feel if you come back maybe 20 seconds later and your stuffs been stolen? There is a mentality in america of Finders Keepers, what are we dogs? No we live in a society! Don't take property that isn't yours, because your making it OK for someone to do it to you, and I hope it does happen to your cousin.
Golly, what if he stole that iBook from someone who visits this forum? So yes, your cousin is a theif, and there is no reason for anyone to take anything that does not belong to them. "I need the money" is probably the dumbest excuse in college, he is not starving, he is in college which means if he does not have a lot of money now, he will very soon and honestly he probably wont get more than 500$ from it! I would not be friends with someone who has such low self control, I feel sorry for all of you who think that it is ok and your cousin.
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I bet a lot of people would think its ok to take things that are not theirs. And I also bet a lot of those people if not all of those people would be pretty furious if someone stole from them. Even though they have no right to be mad. You take something that isn't yours its called steal, you are a now thief. I hope this is just the first of many times your cousin shows lack of moral integrity, that way one day he will get caught and he will look back on that day and say "if I would have just walked away" or "sat their and waited for the owner to come back", or "found the owner" I never would have thought it was ok to take that wallet on the beach when the guy was in the water, and then I would have never taken a car with its keys in the ignition, and then something else and something else until, I never would have robbed a store, and now I am in prison.
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This is a huge subject for me, the Psychology of Evil was my senior thesis.