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It's fascinating how selective people's moral principles become.
When it's AI data centers being robbed, suddenly theft is funny, justified, or even worth celebrating. But if the victims were socialist politicians, transgender people, or any other group this community sympathizes with, the reaction would be outrage and demands for justice.
For the record, I have no issue with people supporting socialism or transgender rights. I only use those examples because they're emotionally charged topics in this community, and they illustrate how quickly people's standards change depending on who the victim is.
Either theft is wrong regardless of who the victim is, or your moral standard changes depending on whether you like the target. That's not a principle. It's favoritism dressed up as ethics.
Theft is wrong when you're taking something away from someone who will miss it. Multi-billion dollar corporations will barely notice if their shit gets stolen, so I don't care if it does.
I'm not asking you to care. What I'm saying is that you're morally inept by not caring. Either you admonish theft across the board or you don't. People are stealing from someone else regardless of who they are.
You don't have to care, you're just wrong.
Not a fan of Robin Hood, then?
One of my favorite movies is Robin Hood Men in tights.
It's like the old airplane movies every time you watch it, you find a new joke.