cnorman18
Member
Nobody said anything about "going to jail". "Legal" and "ethical" are not synonyms. We were never talking about a violation of the law here--just personal moral standards, and calling a spade a spade.
"to me he was wrong not to tell the clerk that he knew the price was wrong. That's different than asking if the price is correct. He also was wrong to load up. But it's a little wrong, not a big one. Calling it theft makes it harder to label real theft."
"...a little wrong, not a big one." Precisely my point. It wasn't grand larceny, but that's not the same as saying, as some are attempting to do, that it was perfectly OK.
I think the term "theft" was used as shorthand because "getting something at an unfair price, though legally, because of an error on the part of the seller" is a bit clumsy--and "legal theft" has pretty much become the province of government.
"to me he was wrong not to tell the clerk that he knew the price was wrong. That's different than asking if the price is correct. He also was wrong to load up. But it's a little wrong, not a big one. Calling it theft makes it harder to label real theft."
"...a little wrong, not a big one." Precisely my point. It wasn't grand larceny, but that's not the same as saying, as some are attempting to do, that it was perfectly OK.
I think the term "theft" was used as shorthand because "getting something at an unfair price, though legally, because of an error on the part of the seller" is a bit clumsy--and "legal theft" has pretty much become the province of government.