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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]last1standing
(11,709 posts)65. Care to link an article?
Yes, there are many abuses in many aspects of our world, but trial lawyers get singled out as scum because a corporate owned media pushes the idea that they are bad people.
Also, I read the link you provided above. It's incredibly one sided and lacking many pertinent details. Yes, people can mount frivolous suits, but if they win, it's not the lawyers fault, it's the jury or the judge. Personally, I think it's worth the risk for an open court system.
Lastly, tort reform is pure propaganda. It's only purpose is to make it more difficult for victims to recover costs when corporations are negligent or malicious.
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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