Why is my teen-age daughter stealing?...

DanaC · 08-27-2008, 03:32 PM

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Wow those are all things I would not have guessed of you. Very telling indeed. I'm surprised that you almost condone stealing from a store versus a person - whats the difference again?

I wouldn't exactly say I condone it. You are right, however, that I do see a distinct difference between the two. It's about inflicting a personal sense of injury and trespass. Lifting things from shop shelves is still theft, but the sense of personal loss and injury that is present with burglary is not the same.

Do I think that's a sensible way of conducting oneself? *Chuckles* most assuredly not. But I wasn't exactly mainstream when I was young. I've said it before, but I slipped down the rabbit hole somewhere round my mid teens and life didn't really normalise for quite a few years.

Why do you think I am such a calm and (relatively) peaceable person now? That didn't arise from life in suburbia :P

Flint · 08-27-2008, 03:41 PM

...any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth...the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth...

wolf · 08-27-2008, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

I wouldn't exactly say I condone it. You are right, however, that I do see a distinct difference between the two.

But who owns the shop, Dana? Is there a difference morally between stealing from a mom and pop and stealing from a Wal-Mart?

08-27-2008, 03:41 PM	#2
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