It’s not civil disobedience if the root of the action is hate. It’s just expressions of hate and repression
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I mean, the consequence is generally not being allowed to checkout more books.
It’s not even considered petty larceny.
It would be hilarious if you were able to sum everything up and roll it into a RICO or something. I just don’t think it would hold up.
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Civil disobedience and "petty crime" aren't mutually exclusive. It is integral to civil disobedience that laws are broken. Also there is probably a difficulty and lots of legal debate about when violating a civil contract, borrowing an item for a specified time, becomes theft of the item by not returning it.
I think non of these should be the question here though. It is simply a dick move.
Stealing from a library should be a deadly sin like kicking a puppy or pineapple on a pizza.
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Nah, don't give em an inch. Theft of property is, by it's very nature, a criminal act. Absolutely does not qualify as civil disobedience in any way. Worse it perverts the meaning of that term.
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Uncivil disobedience
If I had fuck you money, I would just put a dump-truck load of LGBTQ+ themed books in front of their church entrances.
This tracks as shelbyville always advocated for cousin marriage, leading to the eventual rift with Jebediah Springfield.
There's a nice wall over there perhaps some of these people would like to lean on it. And then I have these exciting pieces of lead I wish to introduce them to
Charge them for the full replacement value of the book, and then replace the book with 3 copies.
I didn't really read this, but it might not be that simple.
Most libraries will actually let you check out books "indefinitely," as long as you come back and renew every once in awhile.
If this church is splitting up checking out these books among different members, then it would be very difficult for a library to properly detect and enforce restrictions on them.
Even if the library could identify these people and put methods in place to stop them from what they're doing, it would still be a hassle and the church could be happy with just inconveniencing the 'liberal' library.
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