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If you see any of that and can afford to be worried, alleviate that worry by buying some food for that person.

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The store I worked night stock at never had a single shoplifter on my shift (they were 24hrs).

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Amazing! Your presence must have been quite the deterrent!

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I am very large.

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You know what they say about people with big hearts!

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Yes I did. And it makes me see how the system is broken.

What I “fucking didn’t” was report it.

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A wealthy CEO having their salary adjusted in the streets

a bank with a burning dumpster behind it

an oil pipeline [redacted]

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That’s whistleblowing, calling for the fire department, and reporting terrorism respectively. Not quite the same thing when the examples in the picture are people taking drastic measures to stay alive.

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I’m not gonna snitch on someone stealing bread or nappies but in my experience they’re usually stealing alcohol.

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Sometimes an immediate relief from psychological suffering through the escapism of alcohol is no different than the immediate need for food. Sometimes the alternative is death

Luxury items that have no cheaper, reasonable alternative are where I draw the line. Alcohol to cope with the chronic pain and psychological suffering that homelessness brings is not really a luxury in my book

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Sometimes luxuries are the best thing for the downtrodden to borrow because they can be bartered for money in the real world and sometimes having a little scratch in your pocket can make you feel human. My fiance and i pretty much survived on less than $6000 in total this year but having a little paper in my pocket makes me feel like a person. That being said the more expensive items a store carries the harder it is to borrow from them.

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We have to draw the line somewhere. It is not reasonable to say “anyone can steal anything from anyone if they look homeless”.

Obviously everyone’s situation is unique and I won’t judge the individual until I know all the context, but I’m not gonna turn a blind eye to someone stealing luxury items from a small business.

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Well alcoholism and addiction are diseases that capitalism engineer to addict people to alcohol, so I don’t care at all.

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Not to mention that alcohol withdrawal can literally kill you. It is obviously better to get sober, but a heavy drinker going cold turkey without medical supervision can end up in the morgue.

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Well alcoholism and addiction are diseases that capitalism engineer

Chuckles bitterly in Soviet

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Or like most of human history. People have been alcoholics far longer than capitalism has existed.

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They are not exclusive to capitalism.

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Great. Fuck stores making money by feeding alcoholics.

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or teenage girls stealing make up

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