Would you .... ?

[abaris]

I just watched a documentary about an American officer lining his pockets with German artefacts after the war. Now there's a quote by one of our famous poets, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There's no crime I wouldn't commit under the right circumstances.

Now, being honest to myself, I couldn't resist tempation, if it's rubbed right under my nose. Being a made man, just by bending the rules a little bit and sending home some packages of unknown origin. I certainly would have embraced the opportunity, if it presented itself so openly.

What would you do? Be honest now, would you resist tempatation? And keep the enemy part out of it, since it's just a ways to wiggle out of the moral dilemma.

[vorlon13]

I'd throw the current timeline in the shitter to get Brian back.

So, everyone born after the mid 1980s is going to be a different or nonexistent person.

Sux to be the rest of you. I will light a candle or something

[Cyberman]

"I can resist anything except temptation."

I'd like to think that I'd be above it, and I've been in situations where I could have profited from doing something underhand but didn't and then felt cheated. In this situation? I honestly don't know. I think I'd be eaten up with guilt over it though; maybe enough to make me put things right later.

[Eta] I would burn the Universe just to get a single second with my Sam, though. Kinda overturns everything I just said, really, doesn't it?

[Ivan Denisovich]

I don't know what I would do and considering that such situation is likely to happen I must live with such uncertainty.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I can't see myself stealing anything, let alone war plunder. Not setting myself up as a great moral example or anything, it was just instilled in me from a very early age that those things which are not yours are always, barring freely given gifts, going to be not yours.

Boru

[abaris]

I can't see myself stealing anything, let alone war plunder.  Not setting myself up as a great moral example or anything, it was just instilled in me from a very early age that those things which are not yours are always, barring freely given gifts,  going to be not yours.

Boru

Yeah, it was instilled in me too. But still, I would, being honest with myself. To be clear, I wouldn never rob some grandmother or someone striving to earn their money, but I find myself seriously lacking when it comes to goods not being the livelihood of any particular individual.

[paulpablo]

It depends so much on the situation.  It depends on the value of the artifacts, what knowledge I have of the people being stolen from, the chances of me being caught, how rich I am.

If the value was a lot, the people who owned the artifacts were likely to be dead or far away or they were just known as being bad people, if I was poor, or even not that rich, and I found a few gold coins or something that no one was going to miss, then yes I would steal them.

[abaris]

It depends so much on the situation.  It depends on the value of the artifacts, what knowledge I have of the people being stolen from, the chances of me being caught, how rich I am.

It was the treasure of the dome of Quedlinburg. A king's ransom. And the guy knew very well about the value of what he was pinching, since he was a student of the history of arts.

[account_inactive]

Of course, I would.

[Aoi Magi]

Meh not interested in old timey artefacts, nor in profit at the cost of moral anguish