• shneancy@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    you cannot know which one is which when you see a person shoplifting

    if you snitch on them, there are two outcomes:

    • whoever organised the crime of stealing baby formula doesn’t get their daily quota from the person they told to do it, and either helps or punishes the person desperate enough to go and do the actual shoplifting for them. You helped a corporation avoid theft

    • a baby goes without food, and an already impoverished parent is financially, legally, or socially punished. You helped a corporation avoid theft

    is it worth it to possibly make a mother cry as her baby goes hungry, to try to help a corporation?