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How to morally justify stealing library books?

>> No.12018761

>I saw a nigger breaking pages of some books in the same library

>> No.12018799

>>12018707
I stole a beautiful 1908 copy of Madame Bovary from the library because it had been there for 60 years and there were still uncut pages, meaning not a single person in that 60 years had gotten past page 30.

>> No.12018802

"If I like the book, I will probably buy it later."
Honestly, libraries are the go-to place for moral ambiguity. I went to school in a rougher part of Chicago - between the homeless people, the drug addicts, and the pederasts in the bathroom, nobody's going to blame you for stealing a copy of the Discourse on Method. It probably hasn't been touched since before the decimal system.

>> No.12018806

>>12018707
>>12018799
You could make something of a moral justification if the book hasn't been borrowed in years (some libraries have a system where if a book hasn't been borrowed for a certain amount of time they put it into storage or even get rid of it), but then again you don't know if someone in the future might want it.

>> No.12018808

you kant, fellow.

>> No.12018813

>I want this book
wow that was hard OP

>> No.12018829

>>12018707
My library is full of homeless drug addicts so it's probably not that bad. But what if someone wants it later?

>> No.12018887

>>12018707
>morality is excuses for doing whatever the fuck you want

>> No.12018894

>>12018813
are you literally a toddler

>> No.12018911

>>12018894
Why are you looking for moral justifications for doing what you want dumbass?

>> No.12018917

>>12018911
>assuming I'm OP

>> No.12018924

>>12018917
You've atleast read the OP though, haven't you? So then you should be able to put that post into context, dummy.

>> No.12018955

>>12018707
I'm actually leaving my country soon and won't be coming back for a few years if ever.

Should I check out as many books as possible and take them with me? What kind of back lash will I face?

>> No.12018969

>>12018917
No one assumes you’re the OP. You are a toddler

>> No.12018971

>>12018707

I told them to duel and they actually started dueling the absolute madmen lol

>> No.12018996

>>12018707
.t forgot to return overdue book

>> No.12019029

>trying to justify going against Gods commandments
The absolute state of theives.

>> No.12019033

>>12018707
I am black.

>> No.12019039

>>12018955
Library police will be in your tail for the rest of your life.

>> No.12019046

Morality doesn't exist, they are my property.

>> No.12019059

Art and literature doesn't deserve to be locked in cages for eternity. Someone with actual literary interest should own these books because they would undoubtedly take better care of them and show them the respect a work deserves.

>> No.12019069

>>12018707
If books really weren't meant to be stolen or misplaced, they would be chained or daisy-chained or bolted down or kept behind a hardened window.

>> No.12019074

>>12019069
This is how it is in Namibia

>> No.12019105
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>>12018707
Well how is the library funded?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aW_D9AZgfs

>> No.12019112

>>12018707
If I'm smart enough to get away with them, they're too stupid to truly appreciate said books anyways.

>> No.12019119

>>12018707
The state uses tax payer money to fund politicians gay lovers and coke habits and to rape children

>> No.12019173

>>12018802
>homeless people, the drug addicts, and the pederasts in the bathroom
not to mention the 30 year old literal retards who's aging mothers take them there to play computer games

>> No.12019332

You can't, but pirating e-books is 100% fine if the author is dead. I don't think book translators get paid by sales so who cares. If so I take that back. Ain't giving my money to some kike.

>> No.12019351

>>12018707
Stealing from libraries is disgusting
Stealing from book stores is admirable

>> No.12019443

I've never purposely stole from a library, but i do still have some books from when i was 9 that i never returned

>> No.12019474

>>12018707
>morally justify
That's BAD for you, very very bad

>> No.12019519

>>12018955
They will send you a bil. If you don't pay you'll get late fees from your cities magangment. If you don't pay, it will go only further till once you come back they will take you from the boarder straight to jail till you pay up.

That's what they do if you ignore traffic bills - and sure as hell if they see that you did it on purpose.

>> No.12019534

>>12018707
>tfw libraries are just places for the homeless and other shitter to gather

>> No.12019540

>>12019351
>Stealing from book stores is admirable
this is impossible

>> No.12019570

>>12018707
Why try to justify it? Just bite the bullet and take it.

>> No.12019752

I've stolen roughly $500 worth of books from Barnes and Noble. There is nothing wrong with stealing from a store like that.

>> No.12019764

There is no moral justification for theft whether it's from an individual, a private corporation worth billions, but especially not from a publicly funded library established and maintained for the communities benefit.

>> No.12019768

>>12018707
Kill yourself after reading them. Solved

>> No.12019774

>>12019764
Fuck corps, fuck the average consumer.

>> No.12019795

>>12019774
I don't disagree with you but I'm not willing to delude myself into believing theft is moral even if it's something I do

>> No.12020985

>>12019752
Care to explain your method?

>> No.12020993

I stole several books about Beowulf from my school library in Junior year of high school. We had to write a ~15 page paper about a topic of our choosing and I chose Beowulf. I stole them because I wanted to write the paper over the summer break between Junior and Senior year but they wouldn't let me check it out during that period.

>> No.12020996

>>12018707
It's wrong no matter how you put it. Unless they're giving books away.

>> No.12021118

>>12018707
There is no way to justify stealing because it is a mortal sin according to the Catholic Church. If you have committed theft and haven’t confessed it yet I recommend immediately confessing to a traditional Catholic priest. If you aren’t Catholic you need to convert first—talk to a traditional Catholic priest.

>> No.12021156

>>12018707
How do you even steal from a library if they have a sensor at the front door.

>> No.12021165

>>12018707
You can't, fuck you.

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>>12021156
Booster bag my nigga

>> No.12021195

>>12021172
Thank you, I can now be the scum I always wanted to be.

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12021232

As a librarian, there is basically nothing that I can do to stop you from borrowing a book and never returning it.

However, please bring back good books - classics, philosophy, even history. We are so starved for classics, the entire library system is rigged against them. We throw them out tirelessly and import terrible genre fiction and romance novels on a daily basis; we are not even allowed to put classics on display because they don't have pretty stickers like all of the new books.

Please, Anons, bring back the good ones.

>> No.12021249

>>12018707
if you steal, you can never return to that library, and will only read one book from it
if you don't, you can take and read the whole library, in time

seems to me you're just looking for an excuse to never go back there
dumbass

>> No.12021316

Steal from places like books a million instead unironically fuck capitalism the library is one of the most anti capitalist things around

>> No.12021393

>>12019795
usury is far more immoral than 'theft', and all corporate powers indulge in usury.
the righteous man does not allow unrighteous men to sell him back his interest payments. he TAKES what is rightfully his.

>> No.12021405

>>12021393
>if everyone else is going to hell then I want to as well

>> No.12021530

>>12021405

in our twisted bourgie world that's all the justice you can get

some new money cunt steals the pensions of good and honest folk and gets to live high on the hog protected by the goon force meanwhile those folk die in poverty and the cunt's kids get to drink champagne on a yacht whilst others die for want of clean water

>> No.12021572

>>12021232
How do you find yourself to contend against a future that is so dismal and sad that you should have offed yourself ten years ago? Will you kill yourself by thirty? Forty? Surely not past fifty. I pity you anon, hopefully you can find solace in the fact that the people who come through the doubled door entrance of the building you waste your life away in will be more successful, happy, and content with their lives than you shall will be of yours. Take refuge in the truth, for it shall set you free. I suggest Walmart for rope if you're American, Tesco for everyone else.

>> No.12021588

>>12021572
What the actual fuck

>> No.12021590

>>12018813
This.

>> No.12021654

The state enforces elitism by hoarding information in institutions such as libraries, it is therefore not only moral for a citizen to free information by taking them from libraries but also immoral for that same citizen to condone the institution of libraries.

I mean you can get away with anything if you blame the state

>> No.12021682

I morally justify my theft of library books by returning them later and telling the library of my intent to steal them. I get the books for free and return them consequence free when I am finished with them. The perfect crime.

>> No.12021866

>>12021682
>"I was thinking about stealing this book but decided to return it instead"
>"Look kid, you say this every time, I know you don't have the balls to steal a book. Now can you leave me alone and return your rentals in the bin, like a normal person?"

>> No.12021887

>>12021654
most retarded thing I've read all day

>> No.12021949

>>12019351
Thank you anon.

>> No.12022879

>>12019752
How large are the Barnes and Noble stores in the US?