How can you steal something that doesn’t exist? This question confronts those of us who (i) take an irrealist view of virtual objects and (ii) agree with the Supreme Court of the Netherlands that robbery took place when two boys used non-virtual violence to coerce a third boy into relinquishing his virtual amulet and mask. Here we outline this Puzzle of Virtual Theft, along with the closely related Puzzle of Virtual Value. After demonstrating how these puzzles are deeply problematic for the irrealist, we go on to sketch a solution that not only circumscribes the puzzles but also offers a framework by which legal scholars can make sense within existing legal codes of the new phenomenon of virtual theft.

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虚拟盗窃之谜

不存在的东西怎么能偷？我们这些人面临这个问题，他们 (i) 对虚拟物体持不切实际的看法，并且 (ii) 同意荷兰最高法院的观点，即当两个男孩使用非虚拟暴力迫使第三个男孩放弃他的虚拟物品时，抢劫就发生了。护身符和面具。在这里，我们概述了这个虚拟盗窃之谜，以及与之密切相关的虚拟价值之谜。在展示了这些谜题对非现实主义者来说是多么严重的问题之后，我们继续勾勒出一个解决方案，该解决方案不仅限制了这些谜题，而且还提供了一个框架，通过该框架，法律学者可以在虚拟盗窃新现象的现有法律法规中理解。