This rule, adhering to the same standards as one would follow in real life feels very natural. I too think that trolls and people pretending to be "edgy" are a bit much and not the politest bunch. I also believe that anonymous posters should think before they post something potentially hurtful - hurtful comments are not any less painful for the receiver online than in real life.
However, people have very different standards. When I see pictures of nappies and other baby products locked inside of glass in the US, I feel incredibly sorry for the parents who were forced to steal food just to feed their small child. In such a case, I would even say that if I saw someone stealing baby formula, I would not do anything about it - luckily I haven´t noticed such tendencies in Estonia. But obviously, there was a person behind this particular decision to lock up baby formula, someone with very different standards or motivations than mine (..profit?).
A picture of a supermarket shelf in the US where the baby food is stored behind a lock.
https://i.redd.it/sp5i8bqeiw961.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/ksc0hh/the_locked_baby_formula_cabinet_at_the_supermarket/
However, if I condemn stealing most items (and also stealing should be avoided whenever possible, I would like to point out that I see this as a last resort), would that mean that Internet "stealing" (piracy) should be condemned as well? When comparing things we say on the Internet, it is understandable that people still have feelings. However, is "stealing" entertainment from companies that the person does not wish to support still wrong? What about books or other forms of information that would be unavailable otherwise?
Obviously, anyone can survive without entertainment. It is not comparable to baby formula. However, knowledge and education is more important (still not very comparable, though).
As Virginia Shea points out, her set of rules is not ethics, but rather manners. And in that sense I can agree - stealing baby forumla is not good manners and neither is pirating a school book. And in a last-resort situation (starve or steal baby formula; eat or starve and buy a wildly expensive school book) manners do not matter.
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