[LAC-Tech]

You're constructing a strawman fantasy word where by people only do anti-social things because they need to live, thereby painting them as heoric, Robin Hood type figures.

Here on planet earth however, some people are just anti-social and understand nothing except force. No amount of education or counselling or whatever else will change that.

[Ekaros]

I actually believe they choose the easiest path. Stealing is sometimes that. Now if they could get reasonably paid work or other sources of income they probably would not do that much of it.

[rtpg]

Yes, people steal shit from stores and do a bunch of work shipping stuff through FBA because they are anti-social \s

You think fencing happens because of anti-social behavior? Fencing _is_ work!

The simplest explanation for why people steal and resell stuff is money. You do a thing, and at the end you have money in your pocket that you didn't do before. Not complicated!

[LAC-Tech]

A lot of things can require a lot of work and still be anti-social. I'm sure serial murderers work very hard.

[rtpg]

There's a reason there aren't that many serial murderers, and why we don't orient society around catching those at the expense of everything.

[sokoloff]

Take the act of stealing and project it onto the {anti, neutral, pro}-social dimension. It’s clearly not pro-social; I think it’s easy to argue that it’s not neutral either.

[rtpg]

Maybe I misread the original point of the post, but I read it as "the anti-social component is the motivator".

Of course it's ... not good! Stealing is generally pretty bad, all things considered! But this idea that there are some deep psychological flaws that cause this behavior does not, I believe, represent a primary motivator for a significant portion of these acts.