[jmtame]

To make a comparison more directly to AOL's stature, it'd be like saying I had an enormous fleet of cars and I wouldn't even notice one missing. I'm not conflating Eric's situation and encouraging everyone to be a criminal, but I'm not going to call Eric a criminal and get behind people's attitude that he has an awful moral compass because of petty theft (which is still unclear to me; did AOL not give him a badge? Did it not continue working?).

AOL is probably going to up their security because of this. It was something they should have done in the first place if Eric was allowed to do this the whole time. He's an entrepreneur, he got a few free meals and lifted some metal weights around at AOL's petty expense. I think people need to lighten up and appreciate the resilience and creativity, rather than scrutinize the individual who wasn't doing any real harm.

[Drbble]

So you don't mind if anyone grabs a dollar from your pocket when you walk out of your house? What if everyone grabbed one?

[jmtame]

This is the same argument everyone else is trying to make, and it's conflating unnecessarily. Eric broke a rule that didn't matter. Nobody was harmed from this.