Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry

Re:Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry by gedrap on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:00AM (#11620703)

So, if you are proved to be poor or hungry (whatever that means), does it give you a green light to steal? Maybe, let's say, steal 10 times a day from 10 different shops, and resell the goods for half the price and use the money for something else?

I mean that's a lovely headline and all, but in startups lingo, it doesn't scale.

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Re:Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry by celticninja on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:44AM (#11621107)

Sure if someone wants to go to that effort they could, but be honest those people are stealing right now, this isn't going to drive a whole new group of individuals to go and steal food. Its like that law in one of the South American countries that breaking out of jail itself is not a crime because of our desire to be free, in the same way stealing food in the face of hunger and starvation is just an expression of our instinct to survive.

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Re:Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry by sageikosa on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:22AM (#11620930)

Carrying capacity has no place in the calculation of the value of need.

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Re:Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry by celticninja on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:44AM (#11621112)

Not sure what you are trying to say.

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Re:Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry by sageikosa on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:52AM (#11621177)

I'm OK with that

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