Taking supplies from a workplace is something even my straight-edge older relatives rationalise - "I'm doing work at home", which was true, but I've never seen those supplies returned, and again, 26% of people didn't say it was illegal.

Interestingly, a pretty consistent 5% of all surveyed said all those above forms of theft are completely justifiable, and an additional 10% said very justifiable. That means around 15% of all surveyed were confident that all forms of blatant theft are justifiable. That's not some outlier of antisocial criminals, that's around 1 in 6 people. Pick six people.

As the article says, the young vs. old difference is huge, but unfortunately the report doesn't give much useful information as the age section clumps everything from "a little justifiable" to "completely justifiable" into one category. Even so, we're talking about 80-95% of respondents aged 55+ saying blatant theft is not at all justifiable, compared to only about 40-45% of those aged 18-34. Those are huge differences in generational ethics.