Is it OK to take [from others] what we don't have ?
Q.Is it OK to take, what someone else has,
because we don't have what [or as much as] they have ?
[
Q. is that the 'morality', which is being imbued into the psyche, of many individuals today, by the mores of society ?]
There seems to be a lot of robbery [i.e. stealing, with violence or with a threat of violence] going on in our suburbs today.
It is on our TV news bulletins almost every night.
The home invasions,
the terrified victims, with broken faces.
"Give me your money!"
"Give me your smart phone!"
"Give me your car keys!"
Dictionary;
rob (robbery) = = take property unlawfully from (a person or place) by force or threat of force.Dictionary;
steal = = take (something) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.Q.Is this the society that we
want, or that we would choose to live in ?
Q.Is this the society that the individuals who choose to do robberies and stealing, would choose [for themselves] to live in ?
Really ?
Q.Why can't we all see ['compute'], that it is always wrong, to simply take, what does not belong to us ?
Do some people here think that question [my Q.], is unrealistic, or that it 'speaks' of originating in the mind of a naive individual ?
QUESTION;What is
the measure of a
'civilised society' ?
i.e.
What is the measure [definition] of the
'civilised' individual ?
MY OPINION;No matter how poor a person 'perceives' himself to be, that does not give us the right to engage in robbery or stealing from others.
Psalms 25:3
Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.