My feelings move towards the ultimate responsibility is on society (all of us) for not creating a better system. Though there are always going to be people that just don’t give a fuck.

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    9 months ago

    In a way, yes to both. If a society goes into a recession that causes people to be unable to eat (or does a murderous rampage of starvation like under Stalin or Mao) and people steal to eat that’s directly caused by society.

    But, if you have free will and the mental capacity to make your own decisions, especially here in a Western society that generally doesn’t require you to steal to eat, it’s on the individual.