It certainly can be concluded it isn’t for a direct need, which is not ‘stealing bread to feed starving kids’.

> it isn’t for a direct need

Well, right, but that's not what I was refuting.

	▲	lazide an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Stealing to meet abstract secondary needs is criminal for a reason. People don’t sympathize with it because everyone has needs, and if everyone stole to meet them instead of find something more productive to do, society would collapse into anarchy. So yes, I am refuting what you are saying.