Is it moral to steal from a university library if you know that you're the only person who will ever care about that...

looks like somebody skipped the classics

That was their decision. No one forced them to go to university.

>none of the students or faculty at my shitty school will ever research anything regarding formal logic, philosophy of math, mathematics in general
yup, you're the only one you beautiful genius.

Their parents and 17 years of societal indoctrination did. They never had a choice.

Yes they did. No one forced them. It's still their fault even if they were persuaded to do it.

(Exodus 20:15) "Thou shalt not steal."

I read a lot of book from my university library.
They all had that stamp slip in the back indicating when the book had last been taken out. Many of the books I read had last been taken out in the 60s or 70s.

It may be true that you are the only one that cares at this time, but in 50 years someone may seek out the books you have taken. You might be depriving some future person of formative reading experiences.

>lmao dude what are social expectation and rising work requirements?

>not even trying to line up the stamps with the lines
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Not more despicable than arrogance whicb you clearly showed with your first line there

Women don't care about things like that. It's why they don't make good engineers, scientists, artists, or anything really.

Nope.
The act of theft is immoral.
You could make a utilitarianism argument if you produce something joyful to others as a result of the theft.

>Sheldor cares about the date being perfectly flush with the lines.
stay free, bazingo.

sheldor cares about the dates not looking like a giant clusterfuck, bazooper

best post ITT

beware op. your immense fucking arrogance is setting you up for a fall.

>if you know that you're the only person who will ever care about that book?
Yeah I'm sure you're the only one among all current and future students and faculty who is intelligent enough read about logic. Get over yourself. I mean, I have delusions of superiority, but I don't concretize them into theft. I guarantee you think others around you are stupid because really intelligent people don't go around flashing their power level like defensive eyespots.

Why is it no longer okay to know that you're smarter than other people whom you've spent several years getting to know the general character of? I think you need to go back

Do you not understand the qualitative distinction between persuasion and coercion?

DONT DO IT

>steal a book from the library
>mental stability degrades over time
>"It was right for me to steal that book, it- no it wasn't!"
>you get paranoid about the library cameras catching you
>voice in the back of the head whispers to you that everyone around you knows
>get full blown shizophrenia and paranoia
>bury the book in a remote forest
>on your next library visit receptionist looks at you funny
>break down in tears and confess

Wow all this thread did was confirm how much more intelligent I am than not only my peers, but also lit.

please let me fellate you my high-IQ brother. just knowing how intelligent you are makes me want to rip my pants off and grind down on your dick like the retarded fag whore I am. you like that? you like my bubble butt rubbing on your cock? that's the bubble butt of a dumb slut, daddy. now fuck me like you're trying to get my asshole pregnant, I want your smart, high-IQ, genetically superior einstein babies swimming around in my colon. mmmmmm yeah daddy fuck me harder and then I'll suck the shit right off your fat cock mmmm smart daddy

>ask others about morality because he doesn't know any better
>ignores every advice
>"I'm smarter than you"

It's not stealing if it was always mine to begin with.

no, stealing in this case would be immoral.

just curious, at what age did you start watching porn?

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answer the question first

bump

This might surprise you, but they actually have a counter where you can take the book and let them know you want to read it and they'll let you borrow it for as long as you want so long as you periodically let them know you still have it.

It's a brand new innovation in library technology, not a lot of people have heard you can do this yet.

Well you don't own the book that way. I think OP is well aware of the fact that he could just borrow it, but by stealing (effectively and without getting caught) he makes it his.

>property

never trusted that nigga because there is no photo or portrait of him

>pic related

he looks so fucking ugly lmao
id like to punch that scrawny ass fag in the face, no kidding

That's Marc Bloch

He was a Jewish French patriot who fought in both WW1 and the French Resistance and was shot by the Gestapo in 1945

It's not rape if you agree to it.

No. Stealing isn't moral. (Unless you have some edgy special snowflake ethical system.)
And, yes, people do care about stuff like math, logic and Musil. No, you're not a genius for reading such basic shit, you pompous faggot.

But that won't please his hoarding, materialist instincts.

Doesn't look like any drawing of him, especially the hair

>is theft moral?

no?

>No. Stealing isn't moral.
Don't generalize like that, my man.

Bruh, that's cuz people moved over to digital...Like how you scan a fucking barcode on a grocery item, they do the same shit for library books now.

>Am I the only one who...?
no, never

>last semester at city college
>already given up entirely on having any real success in the world academia
>still stopping by campus to smoke cigarettes with my dumb bohemian peers and to write in the library
>walking through the library one of these days
>browsing through the lit crit when I come across an old reader's guide for Gravity's Rainbow
>impulse overtakes me to rip all of the barcodes out from the spine and inside flaps of the book and shove it in my backpack
>leaving library an hour or so later
>start to tense up as I approach the theft detectors
>feign confidence that I'll make it through and charge ahead
>detectors go off and librarian motions me towards counter
>nice lady tells me how those scanners are always going off over nothing and that she just needs to check my backpack
>open backpack and hand her the book
>she opens the front cover and sees the torn out bardcodes
>stifle tears and leave the library without saying anything
>never went back to school

i hope i go back to college one day

Nah, this library was digital, but still stamped the books.

In university the library often had only one copy of an assigned book, and in the second and third years people started buying books less and loaning them instead. I would often go in the library at night when it was empty, find a bunch of books that I knew people would be taking out in a panic the following week (they were on an assigned recommended reading list) and I would read them, takes my own notes,a and then deface the books the books to the point were they were ineligible., often ripping out pages or, if it was an old book, whole chapters. There were at least four emails sent around to every English student asking not to damage books and reminding us that other people wanted to use them too, but I would just trash them straight away. One time a girl in a lecture the day an essay was due tried to make the excuse that the book in the library that she'd reserved for loan had been torn in half and the lecturer criticized her for leaving it late and she started crying. Fucking normalfags man, can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

>ineligible
nice pasta