padib said:
Since when does everything revolve around basic human rights as defined by some magical unicorn somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? |
It absolutely does not. The reasoning behind the right to property is fairly well explained by many moral philosophers, most notably in the western world John Locke.
I don't know if you actually want to go through the pointlessly assinine exercise of debating whether or not stealing is wrong, but it is objectively healthier for a society to protect property rights. We can come to this conclusion through basic human empathy (I don't like my things being taken from me, you are a human being like me, therefore I should not take your things), and we can easily see how stealing removes incentives for hard work, and leads to violence, etc. It is pretty easy to see, even in a simple microcosm like a Kindergarten classroom, how stealing leads to conflict and disruption. We have good reason to believe the consequences of stealing are detrimental to society.
I'm really hoping you're not going to actually argue that we should allow stealing...
