Auto theft, rape and burglary, at least in my precinct, are on the rise.
In November the United Nations sharply condemned the reports of food theft, rape, forced conscription and violence by soldiers and policemen in the camps.
Robinson seems to see theft, rape, and slavery as luxuries of wealth and leisure, the cruelties of exploitation a function of relatively advanced civilizations, like the subarctic dwellers who kidnap Loon's wife.
The codes, usually written on the wall on a scroll in Japanese cursive, prohibit armed or unarmed robbery, theft, rape, the use or selling of drugs, or any other act in disharmony with "the chivalrous way".
Christian logic, I guess, would not allow for an animist paradigm, but it did seem to rationalize, even glorify, the theft, rape, ruin, enslavement, and imprisonment of this land and its original inhabitants.
Baker of Tonga, he wrote home, was a great man in the South Seas who had been accused of theft, rape, abortion and judicial murder: "not unlike John Bull in a cartoon, with very small sly eyes, and very oily Wesleyan manners".
And New York's incarceration rates have fallen rapidly even as robbery, burglary, auto theft, larceny, rape and assault rates have declined faster than elsewhere.
The harm principle could thus be applied to legally prohibit classes of actions intended to harm others (murder, rape, theft, assault) without their consent.
She knew there were thefts, rapes, terrible things going on, she blamed 200 arseholes for ruining the reputation of 6,000 good people – but weren't things just the same in Calais, weren't there arseholes the world over?
Third, this is deadly serious business, involving thefts, rapes and murders.
Murders, thefts, rapes, acts of incest, domestic violence, and beatings fill the morning, afternoon and evening reports.
