When you don’t know what words mean

    by Hot-Manager-2789

    22 Comments

    1. I get what the guy is saying even if it’s not a strict, you know, dictionary type definition. It’s not stealing if there is no subterfuge. It’s all about the bravado.

    2. Babe get the camera, its an actual facepalm of r/facepalm, and not just a political headline!!!!

    3. Technically I think it’s called robbery when you take it from the person overtly and Theft when taken covertly. Although I’m not sure.

    4. And I’m from Texas, where we have more guns than people. Pretty sure its still stealing.

    5. Murky-Fox-200 on

      Well, considering the word “and” is difficult to comprehend, this view doesnt surprise me

    6. A lot of people don’r function off meaning, they function off connotation. You can use a twrm like “narrative” to deacribe somebody’s argument, and they will become ENRAGED because they only know “narrarive” as a negative term for stuff they don’t like

    7. The term for this type of feeding is “kleptoparasitism,” which literally means parasitism by theft.

    8. I mean, arguably, stealing is a legal and moral term that requires a concept of ownership, and since the lion and hyenas have none of those, it’s not stealing. And I think that’s the point the person was trying to make, just really, really not well.

    9. Pastel_Phoenix_106 on

      I’m just gonna throw it out there: stealing implies legal possession. Animals do not enjoy that. Hyaenas are scavengers. You can’t formally call dibs in the animal kingdom. This is not a matter of theft, it’s a matter of competition.

      But I get the gist of the post.

    10. butiamnotadoc on

      You could cite the appropriate section of the NewYork penal code but they would assume you are talking about di**

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