[Dimensio]

Let's see ... the long term effect of stealing is ... thieves get more stuff.

The result ... the best way to survive is to be a better thief and protect yourself against thieves ... IOW - the strongest survive - survival of the fittest.

Wow. What a stupid assessment.

If you are caught in the act of stealing from someone who is willing to use lethal force to protect their property, then you will die and thus not survive to reproduce. Natural selection in action, weeding out the theives.

The rest of your argument was essentially appeal to the consequences, though it's not clear that you were really to prove any points.

[AndrewC]

Wow. What a stupid assessment.

If you are caught in the act of stealing from someone who is willing to use lethal force to protect their property, then you will die and thus not survive to reproduce.

[Con X-Poser]

<< If you are caught in the act of stealing from someone who is willing to use lethal force to protect their property, then you will die and thus not survive to reproduce. >>

Like I said, the thief has to be better armed than the property owner, which is the case in today's society.

<< The typical doom-and-gloom "wait and see" rantings that I've often seen proposed as 'coming soon to a future near you', but I've never seen any evidence that anyone is ready to line up for 'rapist rights' or 'pedophile rights'. >>

Here is a link giving enough evidence to choke a horse to back up that claim:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=age+of+consent+homosexual+acts

When I was a kid, people said the same things about homosexuality and abortion as you are saying about those things.