(June 16, 2015 at 4:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The fact still remains, stealing is wrong. Period. But in scenario 1 the man probably has a lot more darkness in his heart than in scenario 2. While stealing is still wrong, I'm willing to bet his culpability is greatly lessened in the second scenario verses the first.
Disagree. Morality is entirely situational and almost always messy in this way. The man who does not steal your drugs for his ailing child has failed morally by omission. Period. The man who takes what belongs to you takes upon himself that fault in order to do what is more urgently required morally. I'm not a big fan of cataloging do's and don'ts. It has its place in child rearing but in the end you shouldn't need such a list. Besides it will never be complete or easily applicable.
