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When Phat thinks about it, he will be guided by his own biases.Harris presents a pretty good argument, as those of us not committed to a religion can see. But that's not how Phat will see it.

And Phat is not the least bit interested in having such an understanding.

Nobody expects you to trust Sam Harris, or his advice. You are instead being asked to try to understand his arguments. You don't have to trust him to decide whether his reasoning is sound.

Yes, we realize that because of the way that you keep bringing the issue up./It is really quite simple. Your employer can reduce the amount of shoplifting by hiring more staff to watch for it.You employer won't do that, because the cost of the extra staff would be greater than the loss from shoplifting.You say that you are a libertarian, so you believe that your employer should be free to make that decision.Why are you whining to liberals instead of recognizing that the fault is with your own libertarianism?

Outrage doesn't achieve anything.What about the entitlement mentality of billionaires who are paid far more than their work is worth? Yet you are a libertarian, and libertarianism is a system of theft from society. I don't empathize with shoplifters. But there isn't anything that I can do about it. There are people behaving irrationally all around us. But maybe shoplifting isn't as irrational as you think, for people who might otherwise have no income at all. Your employer could reduce the shoplifting by hiring more people to watch for it. Maybe your employer is indirectly stealing from you by not acting to reduce the shoplifting.

This is a flimsy excuse that is avoid doing anything.If there were more employees present in the store, there would be less opportunity for shoplifting. That would not lead to any lawsuits. And there would be more jobs available, and fewer poor unemployed people.

They don't include that in their definition. But you can see it in how they behave.Society doesn't come for free. We pay the cost in our taxes. And libertarians are always opposing taxation. There's nothing Marxist about rationalizing theft. That's also rationalizing. The owners of your store could pay themselves less, pay you more, and still be quite wealthy.