To steal or not to steal.

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2 years ago

Stealing is bad but I have heard of people who have stolen and have lived for many years from it.

It seems to depend on each person what is understood as bad and good, for many people stealing is a sin. Through life and lived experiences we realize that stealing always has a punishment, it’s punishable by the law of man, it’s punishable by the law of our parents, or at least of most parents, and it is a sin by the law of God.

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A long time ago a person was shot by the cops while he was stealing from a public place. What puzzled me was to read that the mother was asking for justice for her son because he was not evil, he had never killed anyone and only stole without hurting anyone.

I was a bit disoriented by that mother's comment, while she was crying for her dead son and asking for justice.

For her stealing meant nothing, no crime, no sin because she justified it as he was not a murderer.

A mother also said that her son did not deserve the pain of death because he only killed and stole to give to the needy.

It makes me think about how everyone has their own perception of what it means to steal or kill. Do we even know the consequences of what can happen in a person's life when he or she has been robbed? How can we say that it is okay to steal because the purpose was to help others?

And then the lives of people are only worth for some and not for others? Or are we wrong with the laws, with the commandments, with the way we judge the innocent as guilty or sinners?

Each one really sees life from his own perspective. That is why laws exist, so that a court can decide if there is a guilty or an innocent in a robbery and there is also divine justice when the man who was given the power to execute the law does not do it properly.

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We are in a world where we are always justifying people with our own way of blaming or inculpating. I think we should be a little more sensible when it comes to making judgments because to the extent that we judge we will be judged and no one escapes that law, believe it or not it exists and we are all going to end up in that law.

I knew of a man who was quite a character and sold the Eifel Tower twice. He was so shrewd that he gathered a group of people and while they studied the veracity or not of the fact, he studied them discreetly.  According to this character, he claimed that he was a government official and in good faith he knew that the tower would be demolished.

This shrewd swindler was looking for the weakest and most easily duped in his group and he succeeded. He made him lose many millions and fled to another country after he had duped him. It happened that the duped person was a very public person and did not inform the authorities of the robbery and the swindler, when he realized that he was not wanted, returned to his country to sell the same tower to another group of unwary people. Fortunately, this time he was arrested.

There was also a con man who sold a machine to make money and then fled the country. The person who was scammed realized when he was already looking for his third legal bill and only a blank piece of paper came out of his money machine. He filed a lawsuit without success, the thief never showed up and instead he earned a large amount of money, very important to continue doing his business in the country he chose to live in.

In this way life for some has some values imposed on it that are very important in our lives while for others they are moderately important and for a few they mean absolutely nothing.

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I have seen some videos of mothers justifying their sons as thieves or murderers, "my son only stabbed him because he wouldn't let himself be robbed...that was no reason to kill him" or something like that. Unfortunately, many executors of justice are also committing robberies without being punished for these crimes.

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2 years ago

something to ponder and indeed the reality reveals the same from the description. the law of one country is often not in accordance with human behavior and actions so that many victims fall unequal to the deed. Regarding the matter of stealing, I only take the basis from the Bible because any purpose when people have to steal is a sin because in truth God has never allowed mankind when asking and trying to just keep birds in the air and feed them, let alone us humans who are given reason. if they are currently surviving for years with the act of stealing then we must remember that the wages of sin is death so one day they will surely receive the punishment. Criminal punishment in the state is only temporary because the punishment is not necessarily in accordance with biblical teachings because the one who decides the punishment for someone in criminal punishment is the human himself but eternal punishment comes from God because the world is only temporary but in the end is heaven or hell.

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2 years ago

Hello, my friend

Yes, stealing is morally wrong in absolute terms. The problem is that long ago the laws have been relativized.

In our days, the great thinkers in the field of philosophy tend to exclude moral maxims as emanating from divinity.

Hence the biblical affirmation that man does not know how to discern between good and evil. That is to say, he professes an ethical relativism that condemns him. It is enough to look at the present state of the world.

Stealing from the thief does not justify it at all. It makes him his equal.

So, do not be afraid to judge the other for his acts when it is reflected in the law of God. But besides justice have mercy also.

Greetings.

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2 years ago

When it comes to stealing,some people are pathological about it. I have heard stories of robbers I'm my country who go to church to pray to God to grant them a successful heist

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2 years ago

That's why we have rules and laws to follow and be ethical on our own, eve he doesn't kill he still made a sin, a crime, even in the eyes of his mother it's not wrong but for others it's the other one, every bad things we did are consider as sin.

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2 years ago

No matter for what purpose you are stealing, I must say stealing is the bad thing and no compromise for doing this.

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2 years ago

Stealing has always been bad, nowadays scamming people online has been so popular. Really sad, some people has been making this a living...

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2 years ago

Stealing is bad and againts the law therefore parents should teach and inform their child that stealing brings no good and so they shouldn't do it

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2 years ago

Stealing have a different perception to other people that even it's really stealing but they still refusing it is not. But still a sin and against the law.

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2 years ago

Stealing has been and will forever be a Sin. No matter the circumstances, we shouldn't take other people's property. I remember my parents frequently always teaching me of these. Not To Steal Mam.

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2 years ago

The purpose of the law is for the justice of the victim or the accused. Stealing is really a sin. But there were people commit stealing due to the scarcity of needs because they are poor. They became thieves because of the greedy people. God maybe understand them. But for those thieves for personal interest, that's the reason why others suffer, they should be published. But I am not telling also that other kind of thieves will not face consequences because that is against the law of man and God.

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2 years ago

No matter what but stealing is not the thing to be praised. The mother was asking for justice for her dead son. She was thinking that stealing wasn’t bad. Her that perception made her son corrupt.

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2 years ago

Stealing is the first value my parents taught us. Stealing is worst than lie. Have a good day. Easter Sunday!

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2 years ago

What about a kid who took things but doesn't know it was stealing? An innocent thievery haha https://read.cash/@Jane/know-the-fact-before-you-assume-348336c1

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2 years ago

I know some people steal because of poverty and hunger but for me it is not an acceptable reason, we must learn to work hard.

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