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Originally Posted by Axiomatic Wiki
They create impossible situations that would rarely ever normally exist, and in the end, they criminalize someone who did something almost anyone, including these officers themselves most likely, if they found themselves in the same situation would have done, and people here get arrested for it all the time.
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No, not just about anybody. Only selfish people.
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Originally Posted by Axiomatic Wiki
I am not trying to say that the people who take these wallets are good, or justified, just that they react the same way anyone who just found a hundred dollar bill on the ground would react.
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Not really. If I found a hundred dollar bill (after getting over the amazement of how it got over the pond) there'd be no way of tracing it back to the owner short of having literally seen the person who dropped it whilst they drop it. A wallet is recognisable and will usually have cards and some other form of identification within it so that it's actually useful if you hand it in to lost property.
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Originally Posted by Axiomatic Wiki
Whether it is your fault or not is not really relevant here. The question is, were the police who set the situation up, for the sake of tricking people into falling into their trap, justified? That bike was not left there by someone who was in a hurry, and ended up getting there bike stolen, it was placed their by an officer for the sole purpose of throwing someone in jail and ruining their lives. This is fact. How you can see justice in something like this, is beyond me.
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You don't get it do you? The person taking the bike has no care who left it where and why. They see a bike that they know isn't theirs and they take it either to use themselves of sell on. If it had been left by a normal civvie, the thief had happened to be caught on CCTV and they were still arrested for it you'd have no problem with it but the mentality behind the criminal action is exactly the same and 100% equally repeatable. The only difference between the two situations is that in the instance of a police sting it's a controlled environment that can guarantee an arrest without anyone except the criminal being put out. Which means one less thief on the streets to go on and steal something from somebody whose only mistake was absent mindedness.
Not your property, don't take it/hand it into lost property depending on situation. It's really that simple. Do not take it for personal use. Societies values on the matter are really quite clear.