This thought experiment is flawed. When you steal a car from the local dealer, he doesn't have the car any more.
The correct thought experiment is: having bought a car from Ford, you examine it carefully then purchase all the raw materials yourself and assemble an identical duplicate for your wife.
In doing so you save whatever markup Ford places above and beyond their marginal cost.
Asking whether this is morally okay is the true issue.
The correct thought experiment is: having bought a car from Ford, you examine it carefully then purchase all the raw materials yourself and assemble an identical duplicate for your wife.
In doing so you save whatever markup Ford places above and beyond their marginal cost.
Asking whether this is morally okay is the true issue.