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Stealing is OK, the ok-ness of the stealing is inversely proportional to the wealth of the person you steal from.
If you steal 100 dollars from someone who only has 1000 dollars, that's reprehensible, but if you can nick a few million off a billionaire fucking go for it.
Robin Hood wasn't portrayed as a villain.
Any modern robin hood would be vilified and most people would believe it.
Didn't realize I felt exactly the same. Same goes for stores. If the local store screwed themselves in my favor, I'd likely say something. If the big box store fucked up? LOL, mine.
I think that was the generally agreed upon belief before capitalist propaganda changed our collective morality.
That just means all you have to do is come up with a justification and steal all you want for the most part and we as humans are very good at this sort of mental gymnastics. One might say that cognitive dissonance is one of our biggest super powers.
I think relative harm factors in too. Decimating someone's resources when they're likely to struggle to feed themselves next month? Or course that's reprehensible. Taking a tiny portion from someone who won't even notice, especially when you'll probably get a lot more out of it? Now you're practically Robin Hood
Yes but this is a very shallow view which ignores other consequences like moral order, trust and social landscapes.