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Originally Posted by StargazerLily
Did you forget where I said If you take something without paying for it, and it was not a gift to you, then it is considered stealing? So because a house can't be physically picked up, it's not considered stealing? riiight. Until the mortgage is paid in full, it belongs to the bank. If the borrower of the money to purchase that house stops repaying the bank, s/he his stealing.
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(Notice that stealing is a component of, but not synonymous with, theft under the criminal law)
I'm still missing how they're getting away with anything that can't be handled by the bank. Do they get to keep a lump sum of money and/or a house to show for their
stealing?
Drolefile once told me to not get stuck in the literal (despite how words and phrases have meanings) because you miss the general point that is being made.
People are debating the "theft" and "steal" parts of this when we all agree that it's not a good thing what these people are doing. What are some solutions to this problem that don't involve extremes of labeling these people based on the criminal code (because, as was said already, all of the people in debt aren't spending money at Outback)?