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One thing that needs to be understood is whether you're stealing as a means to accomplish something else (I stole this car because I had fifteen minutes to get from Harlem to Wall Street to diffuse a bomb) or whether you're stealing just to possess the item (I stole this car because I liked the paint). It speaks of your character when you do the latter.
When you use thievery in a hypothetical situation, you cannot limit yourself to just physical items. I'm sure at one time or another one of you have piggybacked your laptop onto an unsecured wireless network and committed bandwidth theft. You needed to get on line for whatever reason (1), the network was available and unsecured (2), and it's damn near impossible for you to either be detected or caught (3). It's still theft, is it not? You are using something that you did not purchase with your own funds, correct?
Is the wrong you commit a means to an end, or is it the means itself? That's the question.
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Cameron originally envisioned the Terminator as a small, unremarkable man, giving it the ability to blend in more easily. As a result, his first choice for the part was Lance Henriksen. O. J. Simpson was on the shortlist but Cameron did not think that such a nice guy could be a ruthless killer.
-From the Collector's Edition DVD of The Terminator
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