• Agent641@lemmy.world
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      Hey so Larceny is taking and carrying away of anything with value, grand larceny is items over a certain value.

      But I also didn’t know and went to check Wikipedia what larceny was, and I found this absurd example which has me thinking about donuts in new and exciting ways.

      I want to go and rotate a donut around not its centre of mass, but around an axis through its torus, off-centre from its centre of mass, because apparently that is not a larceny.

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        If it’s not taken from its original position, how is it even theft? 🤨 The only kind of theft I can imagine that would not require moving the thing being stolen is squatting, and that is a very boiled down way of thinking about squatting.

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          Nah, squatting is trespass, theft can only affect personal property or real property when it’s moved, apparently. Squatting doesn’t move any property. Even moving a sofa from one room in your squat to another doesn’t count as theft because there’s no intent to deprive the owner of the couch.

          Rotating a donut on its own isn’t theft, you have to also have an intent to take it or deprive its owner of it unlawfully.