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In reply to the discussion: Is it a crime to steal bread if you have no money for food? [View all]Behind the Aegis
(54,671 posts)32. Likely we disagree because you are confusing a variety of things.
Legal, moral, crime, these are not all interchangeable terms. Let's see how far down the road you would go...is it a crime (sticking with your term) to hold a family member of a doctor hostage to get said doctor to preform a life-saving operation? Anarchy is not the answer.
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I believe that "just saying" that poor people use their money to buy drugs is dispicable.
last1standing
Oct 2013
#71
"Just saying" that what you are doing is called goading and baiting in polite society.
MADem
Oct 2013
#73
I love how anyone who calls out your attempts to villianize the poor is disrupting.
last1standing
Oct 2013
#75
No, it is not a crime to hold a doctor at gunpoint to perform a life-saving operation...
last1standing
Oct 2013
#26
The entire premise of this discussion is the attempt to separate the two.
last1standing
Oct 2013
#41
Exactly! This society is failing more and more of its people and few seem to care.
last1standing
Oct 2013
#53
Yes, "people" sue, and they're usually thrown out of court. If they ever get that far.
last1standing
Oct 2013
#57
So what tort did the trial lawyers allege that caused these donations to stop?
last1standing
Oct 2013
#62
I would agree that people throwing a few coins into a fountain probably wouldn't want to prosecute.
last1standing
Oct 2013
#17
Will a slap on the wrist teach her how not to be hungry or not to do anything about it?
last1standing
Oct 2013
#19
It may not be a crime, but it's a bad idea to steal Bread albums when you have no food
Ken Burch
Oct 2013
#25
"If breaking a law is illegal then doing something ethically wrong would be unjust or criminal."
Hosnon
Oct 2013
#45
Oxford dictionary definition of crime: 1. an action or omission which constitutes an offence and is
Douglas Carpenter
Oct 2013
#37
Illegal and a crime if you go strictly by law. That's what I based my vote on.
BluegrassStateBlues
Oct 2013
#39
The idea is to separate conceptof law from that of justice if that is possible..
last1standing
Oct 2013
#43
It is both. It is unethical and immoral unless help cannot be found elsewhere.
Skip Intro
Oct 2013
#49
The way I see it, the rich steal from the poor everyday through low wages, hoarding cash, and
gtar100
Oct 2013
#50
I've never seen the show but I've heard that kind of thing about her before.
last1standing
Oct 2013
#67
What the hell, if you have no money for food and you are starving, you steal money!
Coyotl
Oct 2013
#68
A starving person over-rides anybody's sense of outrage or thirst for revenge.
BlueJazz
Oct 2013
#80