At least partly, maybe.
I'll be honest: I fantasize fairly regularly about being a "hero" and "saving the day", like stopping a shooter or something like that, cuz I'm just so, so desperate for my life to have meaning or a purpose. I just feel like if I did a heroic act like that, maybe I'd finally feel at peace, that I had finally fulfilled my "purpose" and "reason for being here".
I don't support tackling shoplifters or anything like that just to clarify, I just think I might understand at least a little bit why someone would feel motivated to do so.
Please god steal from the store... less shit for me to condition
It's disrespectful to not give people plausible deniability I agree
I did allude to my friends sister that worked at Walmart my pockets were stuffed with merchandise and she basically said she didn't want to know. I wasn't the brightest 16 year old. Nowadays I just pocket stuff while I'm walking down an aisle without any other people.
Just imagine for a moment, having the power to resolve a social problem. Having some small control over your life. Damn
Counterpoint.
If profit is theft from workers, taking something and not paying for it today after having your wages suppressed so that a chunk of the value your work produced could be slurped up by the bourgeois, is just taking back some of those stolen wages.
Even in this instance your stealing the excess value from some other person. If you have to, do it but it still doesn’t strike me as radical.
I didn't pay for it, the company doesn't profit from it. That's the best I can do.
It’s the same thing where it’s the left wing position for lots of people in America is to just let the homeless shoot up drugs on the side of the street because no other options are deemed realistic and the other side is almost openly calling for eugenics.
fuck off with this take. it’s the moderate position. every leftist i know is fully in support of the unhoused.
I've shoplifted most of my life and it's never even occurred to me someone would tackle me to protect some chain stores profits. I'm always discrete and usually buy something though, I did trigger the alarm once years ago but the employee just waved me through when I acted confused and looked at the bottoms of my shoes like I was expecting a security tag to be stuck to them.
I’m always discrete
Yeah, breaking open a pack of something kinda calls attention to yourself. I don't know of any sotuation where it's useful to shoplift a fraction of an item.
It's a way for them to feel like a hero, but without putting themselves at too much risk because stopping shoplifting is approved by the status quo so everyone but the shoplifter is on your side in that situation, including a heavily militarized police force. Sure the shoplifter might be dangerous, but you have the other customers, the staff and the law protecting you, so it is a much, much more dangerous situation for the shoplifter.
i usually just wanna help people that need help and fantasize about it a lot lmao
and i do do it, like giving a friend with a brutal disease free housing for a bit when they needed it after a bad breakup. i love to see the feeling of relief on peoples faces when you help them. and it is kinda a thing that makes my life feel more worth it. otherwise, i feel like im sitting around, mentally frozen, having no impact
Even if I had lib brain I don't think that's me at all, I'm so afraid of confrontation even in a scenario where I have 100% of the moral high ground I still avoid it. I would never have the nerve to stop a shoplifter who is doing like no material harm to anyone at all.
I was with my roommates (queer polycule) in a grocery store a few years ago, in a self checkout to get kitchen gear for the apartment. An item wasn't scanning right, and the cashier came over. Roommates started kissing while they waited, and they must have been distracting enough while I absentmindedly loaded up bags.
They were being gay as I was doing crime.
Helpers.
even if this dude wasn’t a sex pest, he deserves to be banned tor this take.
Remember: if you see someone shoplifting… no, you didn’t
