Stealing Essay

Most people steal for reasons such as greed, desperation, and/or jealousy. But does that make it right? Certainly not. Stealing is very wrong for numerous amount of reasons. In life there are a lot of people that steal, whether it’s by taking your friends makeup without asking, or stealing a shirt from Walmart. No matter how or what you steal, it’s morally wrong, and you will get caught eventually. Stealing is wrong because it can make the store lose profit. It is also extremely dishonest. Stealing and getting caught ruins your reputation, and makes it really hard to get a job; nobody wants to have somebody working for them that is considered a thief. Being greedy, desperate, and jealous don’t do anything for a person’s outlook, or the way that others look at them. Having those qualities does nothing but get you into a boat load of trouble. Say you were shopping, and you had $20; but there was this really cute shirt and it was $14.97 (note that it didn’t have a monitor on it), and you felt like you wanted. it badly enough but didn’t want to only have $3 and some change left. So you took the shirt. Did you think about how that could affect the people who work at that store? No, you didn’t. You took that shirt because you were being greedy. You wanted the money, and the shirt, so you had it your way. You stealing that shirt hurt the employees of that store cause the amount of money that shirt that you took, is now coming out of each of those people’s paycheck. What about their families now? You just took $14.97 away from that single mom with two children. Not only did that affect that single mom, but it also takes money away from that company, so now they can’t replace the floors in there store, or make any advancements to the store. People have to make a living somehow. Stealing from a store not only hurts the store, but it hurts everyone who is involved with the store. Regardless of how much the item costs. Greed draws us to getting and taking free stuff. It