Stealing

[InSearchOfGod]

I was actually watching Disney’s Aladdin, the part where Aladdin and his monkey steal a watermelon, and I couldn’t decide whether or not that was moral…

On the one hand : though shalt not steal! of course

on the other hand : as Aladdin says (in the song) “Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat…”

What should Aladdin have done? Is it better to just die of starvation? (That of course wouldn’t make for a very good movie)

Seems silly… a moral question being posed by a Disney cartoon…

 

[Della]

If a person is on the verge of starvation it is no sin to steal in order to stay alive as long as no one else in the same condition is being thus deprived of food necessary for their survival. Those who have enough for themselves are obligated to give to those in dire need.

 

[Flopfoot]

Have you got a reference for that Della?

(I’m not sure if it is right or wrong).