if you were hungry, would you steal food? what if your kids were hungry?i

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If my child was starving? If his life depended on it? If I exhausted all resources? I will admit it, I would steal food. I wouldn't steal it from another starving child, but if we are talking about a delivery truck goes by and I have a chance to take a loaf of bread. Then yes. I'd take the loaf of bread. Heck, I'd steal it for someone else's starving child. If this makes me a monster in someone's eyes, so be it. I am comfortable with my own value system. I wonder about the values of anyone who would let a child die of starvation and had the opportunity to get food.

I don't blame you. Over here we don't mind wearing shoes or clothing made by starving children working 10 hours a day. We don't mind wearing jewelry made from stones collected through someone's blood. Our value system is completely fine!

Ooooooooookay. Off the deep end a bit?

Is it only okay to care about the life of your child if you wear only fair-wage crafted apparel and conflict free diamonds? Just lay out the specific values we're required to hold before we can care whether our children starve.

[Anonymous]

well you got to keep in mind after starving for a couple days you will go insane. just like me.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I would steal food if I was starving. I would walk into a grocery store and start eating the fruit, picking here and there. I would eat out of a garbage can if I had to just to feed my kid. I've seen people in DC doing this. Usually an older homeless person and still very sad. A lot of people in the U.S. experience hunger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i am just curious. feel like starting a philosophical discussion today.

If I were hungry, I would take the elevator down to my cafeteria, which has a world class selection of food offerings, and choose from among the most delicious-looking items.
If my children were hungry, I would simply pop another pot-tart into the toaster.

I guess I don't get why this is a philosophical question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been in hunger and poverty and I would never steal to eat or feed my children. There are so many options to be exhausted before that.

Whoever appeals to stealing has a character failure.

In my copy of the cookbook "Extending the Table" there is a sad story of a woman who was visiting a family living in desperate poverty in Bangladesh. The family had several children, and had so little food that they chose one daughter, a 2 year old, to not feed anymore, allowing her to waste away. That way they made their remaining food go father among the rest of the children.

If that family had stolen food, I would not say that they had a character flaw.

I guess it depends what you mean by "hungry".

Dear person who lived her entire life in a developed country,
The stories we read in the books are not always true. And when they sound absurd and very profound we should believe even less. Authors often use such stories to sell their books.
If you chose to believe please take in consideration the cultural aspect. Where I come from it's very common to start feeding from the eldest child and the youngest will eat only if there's food left often being fed of the meat left in the bones by the older siblings. It's not poverty, it's cultural.
And values like honor are also cultural. Some people would prefer to die in hunger over stealing something to feed their children. It's just their culture. Instead of judging them why don't we help them?

The fact that some authors like does not provide any real evidence in this specific case.

While I have not personally seen this, it is common enough to choose a child to send out into the street, or to sell into some form of indentured servitude, because of lack of food. I did personally work with a house full of boys, most of whom were kicked out by families who could not take care of them. I'm not sure that's much better.

[Anonymous]

I'd go to a shelter or church.

If that wasn't an option, I'd beg on the street or go through the garbage.

If that wasn't an option, I'd steal or dine and dash.

If that wasn't an option I would eat bugs, grass, bark or whatever the animals are living off of. I might even fish in the Potomac.

[Anonymous]

Hungry? No. Starving? Yes.

[Anonymous]

No one knows for sure what they would do until they are in the situation.

[Anonymous]

I am not sure there is anything I would not do - if my child's life depended on it.

[Anonymous]

as a last resort, yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i am just curious. feel like starting a philosophical discussion today.

If I were hungry, I would take the elevator down to my cafeteria, which has a world class selection of food offerings, and choose from among the most delicious-looking items.
If my children were hungry, I would simply pop another pot-tart into the toaster.

I guess I don't get why this is a philosophical question.

dumbass.

[Anonymous]

Jean Valvean did.

[Anonymous]

I would get food stamps, wic and other gov't benefits first. I can easily feed my child off of the food stamp amount. If I am not eligible, I'd work as many jobs as possible and do side work - cleaning, babysitting, etc. to put food on the table. And, utilize things like MANA, the food share program and such before resorting to sealing. We have many more resources than 3rd world countries so its not even a reasonable comparison.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:food stamp? are you kidding me? when you live in real poverty there's no stamp machine lady. YOU BEG! and there's always someone that will give ALWAYS.
There's no need to steal.

Are you kidding? Nice dream world that you live in where there is ALWAYS someone available to help. I guess that's why no one in this whole wide world goes hungry or is malnourished or dies of starvation.

Well put! And, for the record: Yes I would steal food if I (or my children) were starving. WITH OUT A SINGLE THOUGHT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i am just curious. feel like starting a philosophical discussion today.

If I've pursued all other avenues, absolutely.