My father once explained to me why the military was so hard on soldiers and sailors (expecially sailors in a shipboard environment) who failed to secure their belongings and gear...it was that it provided temptation to weak men, and therefore contributed to crime.
That made sense to me, and I heard the same thing when I joined the Navy myself.
But letting the people who stole off simply because something wasn’t secured correctly? Hell no!
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It is also possible for someone to allow another to steal something. Say you are a store clerk, your buddy could go to a complete stranger’s store and shoplift facing the risk of getting caught, arrested, and jailed or you could shoplift a your buddy’s store with no risk so long as he agrees.
I beleive this is what the Clinton’s did with the Chicoms.