• Delta_V@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Does the billionaire that steals the excess production of the working class do so out of necessity?

    Does the cop who steals cash from motorists and lies about smelling drugs do so because that cop is underprivileged and disenfranchised by the system?

    Not all humans have working moral compasses. Its an unpleasant reality that can be hard for some people to come to grips with and integrate into their worldview, but failure to understand a problem is unlikely to lead to effective solutions.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      People are products of their environment and their material conditions, exactly. You aren’t genetically a billionaire or a cop, lmao.

      What empty, vague idealism.

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        8 months ago

        You’re really not wrong, and I’m not entirely sure why you’re being downvoted. Thievery is largely a product of unfulfilled needs or unchecked hoarding of wealth, one could even argue that the latter is just a reaction to living through or fear of the former. An anarchist society solves both of those problems inherently. How do you steal what can be gotten as a matter of course? I feel like the smallest outlier doing such things in a community would just be a mild inconvenience and caught pretty quickly.