I was at the supermarket a few days back, in the checkout line, looking at all the wonderful things available to purchase. I was buying Aleve Liquid Gels because nowadays I eat those things like they are M&Ms and the liquid inside them reminds me of chemical Jolly Ranchers. I know the flavor of the insides due to my habit of frequently regurgitating. The chemical taste tapestry is also the sort that you can't get out of your throat, itches, and stays there for like a half hour.
Anyway, there were tabloids there. I don't recall which one it was, but one of them had a cover story about how Estelle Getty can no longer remember Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, or Betty White. As a homosexual, this story was kind of important to me, but I really have too much dignity to look at, much less purchase, a trashy tabloid aimed at bored housewives. So that is where the title question comes in: would it have been acceptable to shoplift said item? It's a tabloid magazine, likely to be destroyed or whatever at the end of the week anyway, and any profit from the sale of the publication would have been tiny, since they cost like 2 bucks. Stealing the magazine, by some measures, would be ethical, since it would be the active denial of the service of the companies that pay paparazzis and put shirtless Mario Lopez on the cover of everything. Indeed, I think it might not have just been acceptable to steal the magazine, but when all factors are measured, it would have been the right thing to do.
I am sure wiser individuals than myself have wrestled with this quandary, but I think I make a good point. Also, did anyone happen to get that magazine? What's the story? How bad is Sophia?
