• Pratai@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        No, it wouldn’t. If murder wasn’t a crime- murder wouldn’t be illegal. It would just be killing someone. Stealing is a crime. If it wasn’t, it would just be taking things.

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            1 year ago

            If they’d wasn’t a crime, it would be taking. Not stealing.

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                  1 year ago

                  Wiktionary defines it as: To take illegally, or without the owner’s permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.

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                    1 year ago

                    “To take ILLEGALLY-” if it wasn’t a crime, it wouldn’t be illegal, and therefore wouldn’t be stealing- it would be taking.