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| | | | The question is extreme....a man who steals might enjoy fishing...a man who fishes might steal.
The problem with the question is that it goes to two extremes that have nothing to do with one another...leaving it open to many opinions...I like to "fish" but I throw a line with just a sinker on it because I do not like to catch fish....I eat fish...but I'll be damned if I wanna touch one still wrigglind and gasping for oxygen...I float on a boat to be alone..one with nothing around me but the silence and power of nature
I don't steal because stealing is a simple mans manipulation of those things available....
This should be in philosophy.... |
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| | | | I rather agree with you jrodmc, though again I state, why should men be taught to be industrious in an honest fashion when thievery works just as well? Theoretically, one could suppose that those already established by stealing would encourage and help stimulate a separate class of being where the masses produced and traded legitimately, though if the sole purpose of production is to aid those who other wise would not produce, what point is there in producing? (I will concede that this point lies on the basis that whose who are the worker class have some degree of knowledge that they are merely working for the benefit of the thieves)
Chang, the question was not one of literal means, though I suppose it could be taken as such as long as it was in reference to a community of people that lived near some fishy body of water. I myself have but once or twice actually fished and kept the fish to eat, and usually follow a catch-and-release policy. Also, this is in philosophy.
Most people experience this question in their lives, whether to take by some means or to trade and work continuously for the rest of their lives. Often it relies on the material or sentimental value of the object, but fundamentally the question remains the same.
I suppose one could say that religion would provide a stimulus for not stealing, ending up in some variant of Hell or another, though most churches and other affiliations seem rather benevolent towards those who donate large sums to their cause.
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| | | | | At least in the Christian doctrine, does it not violate one of the commandments when one steals? |
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| | | | why should men be taught to be industrious in an honest fashion when thievery works just as well?
Because thievery doesn't work just as well. Especially in an urban enviorment. even giving a man a fish doesn't work very well, because the next day he will expect you to give him another fish. In the most earliest cultures thievery was not a wise choice of professions.
You teach a man to fish so that he can be self suffiecent and independent. |
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| | | | Ah, but it is the broader sense of the question which I pursue.
Wouldn't it to be more profitable to steal in an urban environment, as opposed to a rural or agrarian? Actually, rural might be the best, but when posing the question I should have stated the main two choices were either agrarian or urban. |
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