Theoretically everybody knows that stealing is bad. It seems like all societies

forever had that one on lockdown.

Hammurabi's code says you're not supposed to steal stuff.

Egyptian law back in the day said you're not supposed to steal stuff.

The Greeks thought you weren't supposed to steal stuff.

The ancient Chinese thought you weren't supposed to steal stuff.

The Old Testament, the New Testament, just generally speaking, this is frowned upon,

because I think intuitively everybody gets, like your stuff, though hey, it's just stuff and

don't hold on too tight on the one hand on the

other hand it's like hey this is the representation of my past labor and my work

then if somebody comes and steals that they they're not just stealing a thing, they're stealing

from what's left of the past decisions and a past version of myself.

It's also very destabilizing for society, but that said, we all know there are different kinds of thieves, right?

And this comes through in books and movies and you watch a story.

Sometimes you're watching along and you're like, well,

I mean, John fell John, for crying out loud,

he took some bread, he's gonna die,

his family's gonna starve. You always got that example, right?

Of the desperate thief who's just trying to stave off death until they can figure something out.

Well, that's a lot more sympathetic version though still

they are taking a product of one's past self from someone else. Still when we see that

in storytelling we tend to be a little bit more

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