I think you have it backwards. Its way easier to commit crimes behind anonymity online, rather than in real life where there are much more real consequences.
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No, if you can steal ... it's stealing. Regardless. Taking something that doesn't belong to you whether it be online or IRL.
No its extremely different. Once you experience a little bit more of the real world, you'll understand. Taking a virtual item is so much more different than when you're standing in a store, aware of the cameras watching every bead of sweat drip down your neck as you wonder whether or not you'll be caught stealing that food you desperately need to survive and to feed your kids back at your crummy apartment sublet to 12 different people, while at the same time that risk of jail time creeps into your mind, knowing it could all be over in a flash, leaving your life and your family in shambles.
Not to mention your kids wondering why their mommy didn't come home, and why they're being kicked out onto the streets.
Crime in real life carries heavy consequences that extend far beyond just you.
Stealing an MSPP on neopets at the end of the day is just 200M being frozen, and its rather meaningless in perspective.
Edited by ch33psh33p, 13 June 2012 - 05:07 PM.