When I was in undergrad, I co-led a student homeless outreach program that would go out and hand out pb&js, bananas, water, etc. every week.
I was paying for supplies for the entire program out of my own pocket, so being a broke college student, I’d take regular bananas and mark them as the overripe ones at checkout, until I got caught a few times.
> It is lawful for a man to succor his own need by means of another’s property, by taking it either openly or secretly: nor is this properly speaking theft or robbery (SumTh, IIa-IIae, q.66, art.7, resp.)
Taking things for other people who actually need it is not theft, thus you were not a thief.
When I was in undergrad, I co-led a student homeless outreach program that would go out and hand out pb&js, bananas, water, etc. every week.
I was paying for supplies for the entire program out of my own pocket, so being a broke college student, I’d take regular bananas and mark them as the overripe ones at checkout, until I got caught a few times.
Maybe that qualifies as a social justice thief?
@papertowels @rpgmemes As a SJ Cleric, I have to say “no”. As Thomas Aquinas said:
> It is lawful for a man to succor his own need by means of another’s property, by taking it either openly or secretly: nor is this properly speaking theft or robbery (SumTh, IIa-IIae, q.66, art.7, resp.)
Taking things for other people who actually need it is not theft, thus you were not a thief.
And OP didn’t actually take anything from anyone, they just paid a different marked up price for bananas than the stores wanted them to.