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by aezell 1564 days ago
Would you go into a store, pick up the newspaper, and walk out without paying?
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It remains (generally) legal and pretty commonly acceptable to walk into a store and read the paper before returning it and leaving.
"You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow and then steal it again!"