Possession of stolen goods is in fact a crime. It’s usually minor not prosecuted, but it does involve returning the stolen property.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_of_stolen_goods

There is also the irony of the professor stealing biblical fragments. (Thou shal not...)

Since after repeatedly violating the site guidelines and ignoring our explanations and requests to stop, you keep bringing personal attacks and ideological flamewar into the threads, we've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break the HN guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You do realize the legal perspective on this idea is hundreds of years old and influenced by Biblical views of right & wrong, yes?

Someone all warmed up by contemporary political headlines raging about how reality works in a vacuum ignoring society has never really felt beholden to such views.

Pretty good argument for not pretending it ever can be, despite your obvious emotional addiction to thinking it must.