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 Post subject: Morality QuestionPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:21 pm 
i find myself having to steal from the 7/11 all the time, i'm just wondering if anyone else would do it. (i have no real conscience by the way.) _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:21 pm
Yes. _________________ EisleyForever wrote: you're A-list in my heart! MAKECOLDPLAYHISTORY |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:24 pm
I'd become a hunter-gatherer. |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:25 pm
I would probably try to eat off of nature, but yes. I think I'd probably steal. But only what I needed, and only as a desperate last resort. _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:40 pm
i think it's funny that no one voted "no" yet. granted, only 7 people have voted total, but i'm still amused. apparently you're not alone in having no conscience. |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:54 pm
nevernever wrote: i think it's funny that no one voted "no" yet. granted, only 7 people have voted total, but i'm still amused.
apparently you're not alone in having no conscience. I'm sure just about everyone would rather steal some food than die of starvation.  _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:55 pm
nevernever wrote: i think it's funny that no one voted "no" yet. granted, only 7 people have voted total, but i'm still amused.
apparently you're not alone in having no conscience. Ha. It would depend on what I'm stealing from, too. This is all in theory, too. I'd have to actually test myself to see what I'd do, I think. Would you? The more I think about this, the more I'm torn. _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:07 pm
I was faced with that choice back when i lived in Jacksonville's River Side part of town. I didn't then and unless i had children to feed i wouldn't now. I'd rather kill my self then let my family live with the disgrace. _________________ http://zenblade9.deviantart.com/ |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:13 pm
Stealing is a definite wrong but if you really, truly, have exhausted all your options, stealing food is forgivable. Unless you deprive someone else of their food. Life is messy sometimes. _________________ Kulvir. |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:57 pm
johnip wrote: nevernever wrote: i think it's funny that no one voted "no" yet. granted, only 7 people have voted total, but i'm still amused.
apparently you're not alone in having no conscience. I'm sure just about everyone would rather steal some food than die of starvation. _________________ Albert Camus wrote: Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth. |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:20 pm
I voted no. What's so difficult about "asking for help?" There are plenty of shelters, plenty of resources and opportunities for people in poverty-stricken times of life, and plenty of kind-hearted people out there. I'm one of them. If someone seriously was at that low of a rock bottom in their finances, then I'm more than willing to help out, even if I don't know you, and I'm not even that wealthy myself. Real generosity is not giving you what you need more than me, it's giving you what I need more than you do. Combined with the concept that what goes around comes around, stealing seems like the worst thing to do. || sean || _________________ || Sean Alethia || //Christian //Professional Entertainer/Student/Person/Me "If ever you come near I'll hold up high a mirror Lord, I could never show you anything as beautiful as You." --Mewithoutyou |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:29 pm
I don't think I could just because I'd be too afraid of being caught. My friend once got caught stealing while I was with her and it was scareyyyyyyy. _________________ www.kailahandler.bandcamp.com |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:54 pm
my solution to all of these "life or death 'conundrums'" ("steal, or die?", "kill, or die?", etc), is simple: "death" isn't really a choice at all! now, i could imagine some "life or death" situations where i would choose death (basically any situation where i simply couldn't live with myself if i did it!) — but, stealing food? as long as it really was my only option, and it was only the bare essential necessary for survival, and it was from somebody who had more than enough already (like, say, a big-name chain-store super-market), etc, then, well, of course i'd do it! who wouldn't? but, here's a bigger question: is it ever really your only option? no! there are people with nothing left in the world at all who don't feel the need to steal food — they do what they can with the things people give away, or throw away, and that's what i'd do myself! i can't imagine anyone with a computer and the internet ever "having" to steal anything! i'd give up both long before i started stealing food! |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:29 am
tahruh wrote: johnip wrote: nevernever wrote: i think it's funny that no one voted "no" yet. granted, only 7 people have voted total, but i'm still amused.
apparently you're not alone in having no conscience. I'm sure just about everyone would rather steal some food than die of starvation. I'm Japanese and i'm not sure all Asian Cultures are like this but with my family shame is a worse option than death.my relatives would hate me. _________________ http://zenblade9.deviantart.com/ |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:11 am
I would like to say no. but, truth is, I really can't know what I would do unless it happened. I stole a cheap (like fifty cents or something) plastic ring when I was five and still feel awful about it. so I don't know if my conscience would let me steal food. buuuut, if it was my only chance for survival I guess I would steal. I would probably be more likely to resort to begging. and most likely to show up at my parents' doorstep saying, "mom, can I have a cookie?" _________________ it's all in my head |
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