• Chozo@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    No, they’re just stealing the fuel and wages the employees should be getting for maintaining the train.

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      The employees don’t get paid less if some jumps the turnstile, the fuel cost to carry a single person is completely trivial, and I didn’t say nobody should care about turnstile jumpers. I said its not stealing. If you damage the tracks and cause the train to derail you’re a monster, and there are financial costs, but you still didn’t steal the train. Your argument doesn’t make any sense.

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        So are you arguing that turnstile jumpers are harming the company, but they are not stealing the service / train / ride? Like the literal word “steal”.

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          Yes. That is in fact what I am arguing. I would also argue that the harm is tiny and can sometimes be justifiable, depending on the circumstances, but yes. It absolutely does do some non-zero harm, and yes there is no thing being stolen. That is the argument I am making.

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          Maybe, but it’s also closer to the price saved on less wear and tear on the turnstile than it is the price of the ticket.

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      Ok, then make the trains a public service, collect taxes for it and make puplic transport free.

      Analogous to the whole “piracy” discourse: Manage more media like libraries.