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Originally posted by Ustwo
Since children are naturally thieves, and you spend a great deal of your time telling them to share and that they can't have everything they want, I don't think its a learned response 
Perhaps the reason it is ubiquitous is that it is intrinsic.
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I wouldn't say that it is intrinsic, nor that children are naturally thieves at all. Children are simply not born with a concept of property. Therefore they see no harm in taking something that doesn't "belong" to them, because they don't know what belonging means.
We teach them our own property system. It is conceivable that we could teach them a different one.
Strange Famous has mentioned education in his posts before, and I agree that in another universe, in another time and place, different education could create a human society with an entirely different set of values. However, there really is no practical way to change the values we have now. Perhaps if there was a nuclear holocaust and the cavemen rebuilt society in another thousand years, but barring that, I don't see any successful communist (truly communist) revolution on the horizon.