"Is it immoral to lie, steal, and cheat to survive?"
This is why our legal system has juries.
The judge knows the law.
The prosecutor knows the law.
The defense attorney knows the law.
It is not the juries function to interpret the law.
If the jury thinks what you did was justified, then you are good to go.
I have seen often on TV a prosecutor tell a jury "if yada-yada, then you must convict".
It isn't true. If that were true they wouldn't need the jury.
Personally, I know some laws are unjust, or even immoral.
Other laws ... I'll wait till I need to, to decide.
You owe it to yourself to survive.
You owe it to your offspring that they survive.
(and maybe their survival depends on fewer offspring)
But nobody else owes you that.
Matthew Humphrey recently lost $4,000 worth of goods in a theft of his Seattle barbershop. Under a new proposal the Seattle City Council is considering this month, what happened to him wouldn’t even be a crime—if the thieves claimed they were driven by poverty, that is.
This shouldn't be put into law. I should be on a case-by-case basses
a kid who is being partially supported by their parents doesn't necessarily need a living wage.
What about a
woman who is partially supported by her husband?
An employer nor the state, should stick their nose into the personal business of employees
If even one colony had pulled out, giving the British a beach head, the whole Independence Project was utterly doomed.
The colony to the north stayed loyal to the crown. And we still pulled off the revolution.
I challenge you to a day without internet access. Let’s see how you do.
OUCH! don't remind me.
At 3pm today (5 hours ago) we just came out of a 2 day power blackout, during the worst snowstorm of the year.
Hay Williamsport, Did the blackout hit you?
No rioting or looting here in the boonies.