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Essay on Ethics & Morality of Stealing

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Tavian Ruffin 4/6/11 Ethics & Morality of Stealing Ethics: a branch of philosophy which seeks to address questions about morality; that is, about concepts such as good and bad, right and wrong, justice, and virtue. Morale: a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose. Stealing: to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly by force In criminal law, theft is the illegal taking of another person's property without that person's freely-given consent. The word is also used as an informal shorthand term for some crimes against property, such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, shoplifting, fraud, and sometimes …show more content…

No matter which of the three reasons a person has for stealing, it is still wrong, I have learned this through my own person experience. This is the reason that retail prices can be so out of control. Shoplifting can cause a 15% to 20% increase in prices over a 2 year time period. This also decreases the bottom line profits of a company. The bottom line is what is left of the profits after all the expenses are paid. From the bottom line employees get raises, bonuses, profit sharing, and all the other things that are based entirely on profit. There many types of criminals and for every criminal there is a different method of stealing. Once a shoplifter finds a particular method that works, they tend to stick to it. Now this works both ways. Because once a loss prevention officer figures out how someone is stealing, they now know what to look for and eventually will catch them. Shoplifters are people of habit. This means once they have found a store they can steal from successfully, they will continue to steal from that store. Not only will they continue to steal, but they will take more and more each time. In addition, greed shoplifters also have no conscience. This allows them to steal and not feel guilty about it. They actually believe that they are doing nothing wrong. In conclusion, the ethics in stealing is that it is very wrong an shouldn’t be done. The act of stealing itself shows the true character in a

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