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Re:Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Pri... by air7 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @04:15AM (#20467835)
Interesting to compare this to religious morals: "Thou shall not steal" has nothing to do with the the victim, only the actor. In secular morality, things are more nuanced and the wealth/likeness/actions of the victim help determine how "bad" the act was. Amazon being large/rich changes things compared to a small m&p shop. See also: Jack and the Beanstalk, Robin Hood.
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Re:Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Pri... by dnial02 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:48AM (#20468494)
Interestingly, when I see the wikipedia page, the Jewish interpretation is nothing to do with stealing property, but by stealing person(kidnapping).

So the correct translation from Jewish tradition is thou shall not kidnap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_shalt_not_steal

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Re:Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Pri... by jtuente on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:47AM (#20471045)
> Nevertheless, this commandment has come to be interpreted, especially in non-Jewish traditions, as the unauthorized taking of private property (stealing or theft), which is a wrongful action already prohibited elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible that does not ordinarily incur the death penalty.
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Re:Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Pri... by gwd on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:20AM (#20468380)
> "Thou shall not steal" has nothing to do with the the victim, only the actor.

But in the context in which "Thou shalt not steal" was written, the punishment had to do with the victim: If you stole something, you had to pay back at least twice as much.

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Re:Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Pri... by jtuente on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:53AM (#20471084)
> If you stole something, you had to pay back at least twice as much.

"you" refers to the actor, not the victim. In that context, it also does not specify that it must be restituted to the victim.

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