Sage-Tips

In what circumstance would you steal?

Stealing may be caused by jealousy, low self-esteem, or peer-pressure. Social issues like feeling excluded or overlooked can also cause stealing. People may steal to prove their independence, to act out against family or friends, or because they don’t respect others or themselves.

Is stealing food to feed your family okay?

The agent in the moral dilemma being considered has a duty not to steal and an obligation to feed his family. Because stealing a loaf of bread would cause relatively little harm, and preventing his family from starving would be a great good, the action of stealing the bread would be morally justified.

Is stealing ethical or unethical?

It is a dilemma because there is a conflict between the choices. Usually one action, though morally right, violates another ethical standard. A classic example is stealing to feed your family. Stealing is legally and ethically wrong, but if your family is starving it might be morally justified.

What do you do when a family member steals from you?

Confront the person directly. If you know 100\% that they stole from you tell them — do not ask them. Be specific: when, why, how much, how you know. If they do not confess and return the item immediately, tell his/her parents and lock him out of your life permanently.

Is stealing a loaf of bread to feed a starving family a crime?

The person taking bread to feed his starving family is not stealing at all. Christianity does not hold an absolute right to private property. Every so often this fact arises in some papal document and many people are shocked to hear this.

Is eating someone else’s food a crime?

Cannibalism is the consumption of another human’s body matter, whether consensual or not. In the United States, there are no laws against cannibalism per se, but most, if not all, states have enacted laws that indirectly make it impossible to legally obtain and consume the body matter.

What makes a person act ethically or unethically?

Unethical behavior can be defined as actions that are against social norms or acts that are considered unacceptable to the public. Ethical behavior is the complete opposite of unethical behavior. Ethical behavior follows the majority of social norms and such actions are acceptable to the public.

Can Stealing be morally justified?

Usually one action, though morally right, violates another ethical standard. A classic example is stealing to feed your family. Stealing is legally and ethically wrong, but if your family is starving it might be morally justified.

Can stealing be ethical?

Why do family members steal from other family members?

Repairing the Emotional Damage. Consider what drove your family member to steal. People steal for many reasons. Some people steal things because they feel wrongfully deprived, while others are trying to support a drug habit or pay off debt.

Is it moral to steal food for the benefit of starving people?

It is not moral to steal food for the benefit of a starving person, because it is never moral to steal, as stated in “thou shalt not steal”. If a person is genuinely starving, there are agencies which provide food. If those agencies are not conveniently located, just asking for food would probably get food from the majority of the population.

Do you think that stealing food is a choice?

But, if you experience the pain and agony of hunger you would no that stealing food is making a choice between life or death. Any human or animal that’s hungry will steal to survive. At this level morals change and the people who refuse to help the person starving morals come into question.

Is it morally okay to steal food for selfish gain?

If we are stealing food so that a humans life can be preserved it is morally justified. So ultimately if you are stealing, not for selfish gain but so that others may live it is morally alright, furthermore our perception of ownership may differ from the social norm’s perception and we need to be open to understanding it.

Do you think starving people are Better Off Dead or starving?

When it comes to hunger, a person will do anything to keep themselves alive. Even if it means stealing. A person’s life is much more important than someone else’s property and by saying no, it means you believe that a starving person is better off dead and is less important than taking someone’s property. Things can be replaced, not lives.