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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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Yes because an Ipod isn't that expensive and if you are caught, even with the low probability it will cost you your friends which are far harder to come by then an Ipod.
Not to mention if the only reason you dont' steal the ipod is you are afraid that god will punish you, I have to question what your morals are. If you rely on punishment to do the 'right' thing you are no better than a child or perhaps as an adult you are just a cowardly criminal.