2006-10-26 21:44:14 · 22 answers · asked by alanfgau 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Any stealing is wrong. No one starves in this country if they are willing to get off their butts and work, but some people want an easy life and think stealing is the way to do it.
Is it really worth losing your kids over a loaf of bread. You will go to jail, they will be taken into care.
There are YMCA's, soup kitchens, hostals where you can stay and get food. Fruit is on trees all year round, but wild trees not in someones garden. Blackberries, apples, pears, blueberries etc.
Go to the DHSS for money. Cut back on things you don't need, like booze, fags, computers.
I was on the dole for 5 years. For the first 7 weeks of my claim, they wouldn't give me any money. I was in a rented flat, and lived on beans on toast. But it never entered my head to steal. I got books from the library and read everything and turned my life around. I took work wherever I could get it. Cleaned toilets, worked in shops, delivering leaflets, washing cars, anything to get money, but never, ever stealing.
That was 15 years ago. I now live in a 5 bedroom detached house. And I got it through hard work, and anybody can do the same.
2006-10-26 22:09:31 · answer #1 · answered by pampurredpuss 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Stealing - the action itself is wrong whether you are stealing 1million bucks or a loaf of bread. If you have the hands to steal, you have the hands to work for a living or you can always ask for help. "Äsk and it shall be given"
I'm sure there are a lot of sympathetic people out there if you are a genuine help-seeker but of course not on a daily basis.
2006-10-26 23:24:46 · answer #2 · answered by shannondelaney 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Stealing is wrong, but understandable in a situation like that. I know I am no thief, but if my kids were starving I'll do what is necessary to feed them! Good question. I have discussed this before with my family and I'd like to see the answers and your conclusion.
2006-10-26 21:48:15 · answer #3 · answered by RIDLEY 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's always right to feed your family,no matter what it takes,as long as you don't hurt anyone or steal from a poor person.I would never let my children go hungry.It's easy for some people to take the moral high ground when they have a full belly,it's different when you see your kids crying with hunger.
2006-10-26 22:52:30 · answer #4 · answered by michael k 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A point of interest - I understand that in some Native American cultures, if a neighbour steals something from you, then you are to blame for not noticing that he needed it, and giving it to him freely.
Your question - if you have tried every other way of feeding your family, then I think it would be excusable.
2006-10-26 21:48:51 · answer #5 · answered by mad 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Stealing is never right and when we start to make allowances for this or that reason we are on a slippery slope of allowing all moral standards to decline and civilisation as we know it will disappear. It is however an act of love that deserves forgiveness.
2006-10-26 22:08:16 · answer #6 · answered by Rahab 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you did what you had to do, however like the many people who do steal things they make it harder for themselves at the end of the day because that is partly the reason why prices have to be increased so the company can recover the losses so the poor people put there who go out and work hard for a living end up paying for it.
2006-10-26 21:50:39 · answer #7 · answered by missree 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ex 20:15"You shall not steal. Le 19:11, De 5:19. to name a few Bible verses....& here is an awesome prayer to keep in mind...
Proverbs 30:7-9
7 Two things I request of You (Deprive me not before I die): 8 Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches-- Feed me with the food allotted to me; 9 Lest I be full and deny You, And say, "Who is the Lord?" Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God.
It is always wrong to steal, someone always has to pay for what has been taken,..in one way or another.
2006-10-26 21:53:43 · answer #8 · answered by maranatha132 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
why not steal something more fulfilling than just a loaf of bread.
2006-10-26 21:50:12 · answer #9 · answered by moti 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you've been watching 'les Miserables!' wrong, as stealing always is. But not worth taking a life or a long sentence for
2006-10-26 21:46:42 · answer #10 · answered by rose_merrick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋