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All of those are stealing. They're of items of different worth, but I don't believe the badness of it changed.
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The principle behind it is all the same. But how were people affected by each of those three occurrences? That's how I look at it. Rip someone's heart in half by taking the only picture they have of their parents, or take a pack of gum from Wal-Mart, which no one will even notice, and will probably never be missed.