Steal Something from Work Day 2011

[athanasios]

Steal Something from Work Day 2011

When does theft start and when 'theft' is not theft but the worker's fundamental right?

[ErasOmnius]

Wrong...so wrong...

[athanasios]

So it is wrong when denied to drink fresh tap water to open a bottle from the product you carry? It is NOT theft but a fundamental right. Please restudy your bible and do not listen to the b******t of fat religious dictators who are fed by the 'flock' and have never worked in their life.

[ErasOmnius]

To feed and hydrate your family there are Biblical rights to so-called stealing, I will grant you that. Any man or woman who does not care about thirsting and starving people cannot be from God.

But you posted 'Steal Something for Work Day', as did one of my wife's employees. What's going to go out the front door? A $10,000 Copying Machine? A $2000 Printer? A $7000 Landline Phone Networking Box? So I took the 'flyer' down off of the Bulletin Board and threw it out.

[athanasios]

We are not talking about such kind of stealing. Nevertheless price of what is stolen is irrelevant. For example some medicine might cost more than what you posted and my conscience wouldn't bother me at all to 'steal' them and give them to a sick person in need of them. Actually I view it as proper and fair 'distribution'. Maybe I have done it already... :D

[ErasOmnius]

The people who sponsor the Steal Day are talking just about that type of thing. Printers, cables. Using your employers phone to call all over the world, then resigning, or not owning up to it when the Bill comes due.

No one on the Link mentioned medicine, necessary food or water.

Sometimes our Socialism clashes with our service to Yahweh, and we have to make choices. Always the latter.

[Dante]

One could argue that if a situation is inherently unjust, any action taken to spite it is an attempt to correct the balance.

[athanasios]

Agreed Dante.

ErasOmnius:

Better read the Link again. Some were denied even WATER.

And your Bible: It commands us not to shut the mouth of a working animal.

But workers aren't considered even animals but recyclable spare parts.

[ErasOmnius]

Okay, you're right. The line is drawn at food and water. Otherwise we'd have anarchy and thievery.

[Dante]

We'd have thievery because of stealing? Say it ain't so.

I'm pleased to have found some common ground between us, ath. Tricky and possibly partly due to the language barrier though it might have been. Capitalism, by and large, abuses workers. One shouldn't be too surprised when the workers occasionally abuse the capitalist system.

[athanasios]

I am glad for that.

Anyway the concept of a free market is preferable over what befell to the Eastern European Countries under the Communist regimes.The problem is that nowadays the free market is derailed, without rules, without laws, without control. The strongest exterminates the weakest. That's a sick form of Capitalism. States are failing to enforce balance so all citizens can cover their basic needs. Inevitably the deprived more and more disregard such a type of 'law'. It is a matter of survival.

[ErasOmnius]

Survival of the fittest!