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.

  • D61 [any]
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • groundling20XX [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      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.