Alexander Pruss's Blog

Aquinas says that when a starving person takes food needed for survival from someone who has too much, the act is a case of taking but not s...

This morning, I was reading the Georgia Supreme Court’s Simpson v. State (1893) decision on a cross-state shooting, and loved this example,...

Roughly: To murder is to intentionally kill a juridically innocent person. And: To steal is to intentionally appropriate something tha...

Some types of wrongdoing vary in degree of seriousness from minor to grave. Stealing a dollar from a billionaire is trivially wrong while st...

Common sense says that if you leave a more valuable item out, it is ceteris paribus more likely to be stolen. If we're asked...