In The Kite Runner, one of the characters near the beginning of the film states:

The greatest sin is theft and all the sins are variations of it.

I believe this to be true. The very definition of stealing is to deprive someone of having a particular thing, whether it’s tangible or intangible. And no matter which way you cut it, theft is theft (as many people often like to recite, usually sitting on a high horse.)

I even got to thinking at one point: if you look at the Ten Commandments (whether or not you believe in Christianity), most of them are related to some form of theft.
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