Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Thou Shalt Not Steal

Thou shalt not steal.  What is it, about those four simple words, that is so difficult to understand?  Stealing, is immoral, plain and simple, and yet all manner of justifications and obfuscations are daily presented so as to instill in “the people” a confusion in regards to the fact that stealing is immoral, such that the admonition “Thou shalt not steal” is become “Thou shalt not steal, except…”

Wendy McElroy posts an excerpt of a F.A. Harper essay on the subject of stealing, which provides an “intutitive morality” test on stealing.  The post is titled To Steal or Not To Steal.  Can you pass the test?

From Harper’s essay, posted at Wendy’ site.

Herein lies the principal moral and economic danger facing us in these critical times: Many of us, albeit with good intentions but in a hurry to do good because of the urgency of the occasion, have become victims of moral schizophrenia. While we are good and righteous persons in our individual conduct in our home community and in our basic moral code, we have become thieves and coveters in the collective activities of the Welfare State in which we participate and which many of us extol.

Posted by John Venlet on 07/07 at 08:14 AM
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