Hythloday claims that death is far too harsh a punishment for a petty crime like thievery. He argues that people only commit thievery because they are in need of something, and in More's time, all people in a thief's class would desire is food. Hythloday's solution to thievery in replacement of the death penalty is to provide food to the people. Hythloday says that because the issue of thievery lies in the society and not the citizen, the society is the one that should change.
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