system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If someone steals out of desperation, is it morally wrong? Is there a philosophy of property?

Edit: Under what conditions is it morally acceptable for one person to take the property of another? I'm also interested in the philosophy of what it means to '*own*' something.
gpt
On one uninteresting reading of this question the answer is trivially yes, because stealing usually means wrongfully taking something. So we should ask the question about taking others' possessions generally, without importing moral considerations already into the question.

It seems plausible that a rich person is morally required to give a small amount of their wealth to a another if that other is in a deeply poor condition (e.g. starving and could live if they got bread). So one way to think about this is that the rich person, in virtue of their duty to give bread to this poor starving person, is not in fact morally entitled to his bread, even though it's in his possession. So the poor person would not be stealing if they take it from them, in fact it may just be a case of taking what is already rightfully his. You might even say that, by not giving the poor person the bread in his possession, the rich person is the one stealing.