Overview
Stated generally, theft is taking another’s property without that person’s consent.
This is a breach of the Legal Principle.
In Legal Principle terminology, theft is the initiatiion of nonconsensual physical force against another person or their property.’
Examples of theft are when someone is deprived of their peacefully-obtained property by:
An individual using threats of or actual physical force - typically called robbery
A group using threats of or actual physical force - includes government taxation, and mafia ‘protection payments’
- When governments force the adoption of their state currency and undermine its value by creating more of it, this is called inflation. Forcing the use of currency is really coercion, but the effect of inflation is similar to theft.