Theft Is Now Progressive Chic

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Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative is dismissed by New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino, with some left-wing commentators favoring flagrant disregard of the social contract.
In a New York Times video, Tolentino and pro-communist streamer Hasan Piker discuss theft from large corporations like Whole Foods, justifying it as insignificant morally or as protest, and even promoting piracy and IP theft.
The conversation escalates to endorsing 'cool crimes' such as bank robberies, stealing artifacts, and hypothetically blowing up pipelines, with sabotage framed as tactically useful in labor struggles.
Piker and Tolentino make excuses for murder, discussing the alleged assassination of a UnitedHealthcare CEO as understandable due to structural oppression in the healthcare industry.
The overarching premise suggests that laws lose legitimacy when elites violate the social contract, entitling ordinary people to ignore rules, potentially bridging to political violence.

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