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

Yeah, maybe. I had envisioned a complete social breakdown scenario or official discrimination that made feeding me illegal (happened to my grandparents, after all). If it's just an "I don't have money for food, but everyone else's sun is still rising", then I'd graciously accept help rather than stealing.

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12/10/2009 09:48

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

Anonymous

Do you mean a post-Katrina scenario of looting? Yes, I would. And I don't think social service organizations were set up to help people.

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12/10/2009 09:50

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

Anonymous

Of course. Anyone who says no has never been hungry.

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12/10/2009 09:55

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

Anonymous

Yes, of course, if I had exhausted all other possibilities.

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12/10/2009 09:56

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

Anonymous

Yes.

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12/10/2009 10:04

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

Anonymous

Yes, absolutely. But I'd exhaust other options first.

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12/10/2009 10:05

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

Anonymous

In a heartbeat. For my child to survive, I would surmise that I would most likely do a lot worst.

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12/10/2009 10:09

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

Anonymous

If I was hungry, probably.

If my children were hungry, I'd do just about anything to feed them.

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12/10/2009 10:16

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

Anonymous

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.

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12/10/2009 10:22

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

Anonymous

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.

so you'd beg first. fine. what then when begging fails? die?

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12/10/2009 10:34

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

Anonymous

If the food stamp card machine didn't work and there wasn't a soup line nor anywhere else to turn, damn right I would steal food for my children.

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12/10/2009 11:00

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

Anonymous

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".

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