But it's MINE?!?

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Give me one good reason NOT to steal…

Advance thanks 🙏!!
 
Amazing verse 😀 - but WHY?
Can you give me a reason not based in theology?
 
When I was a child I stole some money to buy a new toy car. I bought it and took it home. I wanted to show my parents this car because it was great but I couldn’t, I wanted to show a friend but I couldn’t in case he mentioned the car to my mum, I played with it in my room and hid it if I heard anyone coming upstairs. Every time I looked at the car I remembered how I’d stolen the money to buy it. It’s shine was lost on me, it had no value, no pleasure from it.

I took it out of the house and threw it away. It was the best toy car I never owned.

I tried stealing sometimes when I was young, it was always the same. When you steal you own nothing but the stain on your soul and the guilt from the damage to your victim.

Not a great idea.
 
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But how about ”stealing back” something someone else stole from you?
 
how about ”stealing back” something someone else stole from you?
 
No

But is grief a strong enough preventative reason? I feel like it can be easily pushed away, especially in the ”mind of a child” when the current desire may surpass any moral considerations…

Are there ANY moral and/or metaphysical arguments that give me a reason to believe that stealing, whether stealing back or otherwise, is wrong?
 
And what about the whole ”Robin Hood” situation, of stealing from the rich to give to the poor?

Or, in a much more practical example, what about stealing from one who you believe has a surplus of the given item you want, and you know for a fact (or believe very much to be the case) that they wouldn’t ”miss the item anyways”??
 
And in addition, you have the ”it was mine to begin with” argument…

Thoughts?
 
So the majority of the time i’ve seen someone come across this situation it has been small children squabbling over a toy another child has “accidently” pocketed which always ends in one tearfull child.

Although adults from time to time borrow and genuinely accidently forget to return things ( Thank you for reminding me that my mother in laws umbrella is in my car)
Sometimes mabye either ask if that person has got your… or just let it go it’s not worth loosing friends over

Ot if this person has stolen your belonging then talk to them about it don’t just steal it back

That’s just acting/reasoning as a child would
 
One last thing…how about if they deny taking your…let it go?
 
Let it go. God teaches us forgivness and if it’s something they’ve stolen it’ll never truly belong to them it will only fill them with guilt.
 
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