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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Stealing for entertainment could certainly be justified if the person had no entertainment and no means of acquiring it legitimately. Hard to figure how the would steal it though in these circumstances.
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There's an excellent current film,
Hugo, with a scene like this. Two children, one of whom is forbidden to see movies, and the other of whom is essentially abandoned, sneak into a silent-era theater. In the context of the film, most Hugo viewers will see it as justified. Also justified is food stealing by the abandoned child, who would otherwise starve.
Comparing to the situation discussed here:
-- Obviously the food-stealing was more justified than the entertainment-stealing, despite the former being of a physical object.
-- At the end of the movie, the children no longer have to steal food or entertainment because of being in a healthy family situation. If they nonetheless kept on sneaking into theaters, this would be clearly wrong. And much closer to a US college student, in 2012, using the darknet. At least, as I see it.