[nabeards]

I'll admit to being amazed that people like you exist. No sense of integrity or honor? Just selfish I guess?

[triton]

Hardly. Here's my perspective which will hopefully make you understand.

I live in a poverty stricken area. The supermarkets shove the following distribution of fruit out (I know this because my wife works in one as well):

- 20 bags of 5x apples for £1.89 each. 20% go in the bin.

- 100 pink lady apple at £0.75 each. 80% go in the bin.

- 20 cheap apples (one tray) at around £0.12 each. 0% go in the bin.

Now, why should I take the last single cheap apple which instantly prices out the poorer people which is clearly the intention of the supermarket which is to upsell to the pink ladies or bags of apples?

Fuck 'em to hell. There is no honour or integrity in capitalism. Trample over everyone to make profit.

I'm not selfish.

I'm not lacking integrity.

I'm not lacking honour.

Perhaps lacking in faith and respect for rules but that is my only crime.

[DougN7]

Stealing is stealing despite your best attempt to rationalize it. If you don't like their offerings, don't shop there. THAT would be integrity.

[nabeards]

Agreed. Shop/move elsewhere, especially if you are not a fan of capitalism. I, too, am not a fan of capitalism so it is my plan to remove myself from its constraints. But I don't steal and then try to justify the action because I'm against what they stand for.

[WalterBright]

I suggest the honorable way for you to deal with this is to find the wholesale supplier of those 0.12 apples, buy a box, and sell them yourself as a street vendor.

[chad_oliver]

You refer to prices in pounds, which seems to indicate that you live in the UK. Your area is not poverty stricken, it is simply poorer than average for your country. Go live in Uganda to see what 'poverty stricken' really means.

[eCa]

If you spill your coke at McDonald's you get a new one for free.

If you don't spill it you pay for it.

Do you go back to the register and say you spilled it?

[seanmcdirmid]

Aren't free refills common outside of America also? Maybe not.

[iends]

In the 6-7 countries I've been to outside the USA, nope.

[hobolobo]

There's a lot of righteous indignation coming out. Just to let you know, I upvoted you for your honesty.