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Originally Posted by Racnad
Here's a scenario for you...
You're at a party with at least 25 guests. You enter a bedroom by yourself to drop your coat on the large stack of coats on the bed. You notice the edge of an iPod in one of the pockets on someone else's coat. (If iPods aren't your thing, substitute anything which 1) you'd like to own or own another of, 2) is expensive, and 3) could easily fit in your pocket.)
Applying your test the answers are 1) yes, I'd like to have an/another iPod, 2) Yes I have the means to slip it into my pocket, and 3) It could have been anyone at the party, so the owner won't know it's me, and since I don't know all of the other guests, might not even know me.
Is there any reason to not steal the iPod?
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Nope no reason at all. The desire to have this iPod is what's driving you to steal it. The opportunity has presented itself, and since the likelyhood of you getting caught is minimal, there is really nothing stopping you from snatching it up.
I'm pretty sure that's how my CD walkman disappeared from a house party years ago.
As for karma, I find it interesting that most of the time it's in reference to the malevolent kind (karma's a bitch!), like the kind of karma you hope a serial killer gets when the police are unable to stop him.
Nobody ever mentions karma in the sense of, "I saved a kid from a speeding truck and then the following week I won the Powerball lottery! Karma is great!"