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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Again with the legal semantics argument. Sigh!
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Is it semantics? Yes.
Is it a distinction without a difference? No.
It's a distinction that was the subject of a US Supreme Court case. I don't think their findings should be discarded by anyone who claims that what the Poll proposes is equivalent to stealing a TV set.
The reason I posted the Wiki entry instead of the link to the case itself was to show how easy it is for anyone to find proof that no one deserves to have their motives and characters maligned for drawing the same important distinction the court did.
And it's not a new concept. It's also easy to find that Thomas Jefferson drew the same distinction.