Mr. Waits said: "If I stole an Opel, Lancia or Audi, put my name on it and resold it, I'd go to jail.
"People have a default assumption," writes the psychologist Paul Bloom, "that things, people and events have invisible essences that make them what they are". If I stole your wedding ring, replacing it with an identical one, you'd be dismayed if you found out, because it wouldn't be your ring.
If I stole your house, would you be happy with that?" Padre Ton, a former deputy from the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) who led the indigenous peoples' parliamentary front, said PEC 215 is likely to win congressional approval, but could still struggle in the senate.
Asked to define ransom yesterday, Sandy Nairne, now director of the National Portrait Gallery but formerly in charge of the recovery operation, said: "If I stole something from you and said I will burn it unless you pay me money then that is a ransom demand.
If, for example, I am asked if I stole the money, and I reply in an ironic tone, "Yeah, right, of course I did," when I did steal the money, intending that I be believed to have not stolen the money, and if I am believed, then I have deceived using a truthful statement (it is unclear if such cases of "telling the truth falsely" (Frank 2009, 57) are to be considered as cases of paltering).
How would it look if I stole something?
Do you mind if I steal it?
"If I steal a little, I go to jail; if I steal a lot, I advance my career," Gioacchino De Giorgi, 34, said as he worked in a tobacco shop in downtown Palermo.
But if I steal your money, tomorrow you cannot eat and tomorrow you cannot go to school and tomorrow you'll be a hopeless man".
If I steal a bicycle from my friend, and admit in court that I do so because his name is Tim, and I am proud of vehemently disliking people called Tim, perhaps I'm a member of an anti-Tim society, should I be punished more seriously than if I had simply stolen his bike because I wanted his bike?
They point out that downloading an MP3 of a commercial album doesn't deprive anyone else of a copy, whereas if I steal your cigarettes then you no longer have any cigarettes.
