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Potato Potato.... Depends how you look at the potato... Who gave you the right to take it from the ground and eat it ? Who gave you the ground ? Is it wrong if someone planted it ? Is it wrong if it grows there naturally. Is it wrong if you take one because your hungry, or is it wrong to take a ton in case you get hungry ? See it is a slippery slope of ownership... Are you owned ? But you still pay taxes to people that own you ?

Oh boy.

Ethics is relative and changes over time and varies by place, but is mostly irrelevant it sounds for him, which is good.

What makes you think this person would be opposed to people taking food he had stockpiled?

This man wasn't stockpiling any of his own food that he was producing himself. He was only stealing it from others. If he hadn't been able to steal, he'd have starved to death. A society consisting solely of people like him would collapse completely within days; you can't have only takers and no producers.