Pedantry time: We have tags for both theft and robbery. Neither have wiki descriptions at time of writing. What is the difference between them? Or is the difference negligible enough that they should be aliased?

Personally, my gut feeling is that a robbery involves coercion through violence -- "Your money or your life," etc. -- while a theft is simply taking something, often without the target even knowing. I don't know if other people feel the same, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft

Theft is the act of taking another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbery

Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or use of fear. According to common law, robbery is defined as taking the property of another, with the intent to permanently deprive the person of that property, by means of force or fear; that is, it is a larceny or theft accomplished by an assault.

Theft: *yoink*
Robbery: *take*

So my gut feeling was correct. That's a significant enough difference I think they can remain separate.

New problem: There are also burglary, looting, and heist tags. Should those remain separate?

I didn't know this but Burglary: Trespassing with intent to do further crime
Looting: Theft during a state of emergency, so stealing as an opportunist
Heist: Armed robbery. That's literally it lmao even Google just said "a robbery" full stop