Theft = Murder

Property represents the time someone expends in creating it. The crops of the farmer come only with the farmer's great efforts; The iron smelted, cast, forged and formed all are from the worker; The composition of music or artistic-design or engineering or scientific concept all represent effort----And, all of these represent some part of the workers' life!

THEREFORE, the theft of such property is the taking of some part of another person's life which can not be replaced and is a “small murder”.

It does not matter if the stealing is done with a gun or a legislative act or by plagiarism or industrial espionage or by a "welfare cheat" or the papers of an attorney enforced by a court---They are all stealing and the taking of a part of a human life! Even insurance coverage or presumed, but corrupted, consent-of-the-citizen to legislative acts only spread the theft and loss of life-time over many individuals.

When the acts of any such thief (Common robber or plagiarist or lawyer or legislator) add up to one human life, that person should be punished as a murderer.

(nb The above is adapted from a quote in Jack Vance's The Anome.)