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by PeterisP 2118 days ago
I hope that you would agree that if you sneak into a movie theater to sit in a near-empty auditorium for a 2pm Tuesday matinee, then it's something very, very different from theft?

Like, people can argue if it's as bad as theft or not as bad than theft (I would definitely argue that it's substantially less bad than theft, but I know that some people would disagree), but no matter what, such an action is not theft, it's something else.

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"something else?" You can't come up with an alternative name for it because it is, in fact, theft of services.

Replace "movie theater" with Disneyland. Is it not theft to sneak into Disneyland without purchasing a ticket, even on its slowest day of the year?