People who steal things aren't just "called" thieves. They are thieves. In some cases, they can even get away with not paying for gasoline (or other things), not get caught, never get called a thief, yet they still are, definitionally, thieves.
Depends on whether you assume the background property arrangements are valid. We call them a thief because we call this gasoline owned by this group of people we call a company.
Some other group of people might call everyone who buys gasoline thieves since they profit off of the negative externality they leverage on the rest of society.
It's all a matter of what you view as neutral and objective and what you view as a violation of others rights.
people who already crossed a line by stealing have shown they are not rationale decisions in their life. it never ceases to amaze me how much effort people will put into stealing something that truly isn't worth the time expended if they had instead focused that time on working
Because they are good at stealing doesn't mean that people shouldn't try and stop them stealing or that it will be a good outcome for anyone if they successfully steal all the stuff.
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