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RE: Full Stomach Over Ethics?

in #life7 years ago

Thankfully, I didn't have to steal, prostitute myself (not the working in an office or corporate environment thing) or beg on the streets in my life, but I've seen a lot of people who have to do these because food comes first and ethics would not be such a primary concern.

It is NEVER unethical to feed yourself if you're hungry. Society itself becomes unethical by allowing people to starve when food is plentiful. Food and water is a basic human right. Anyone who calls someone dirty or immoral because they have to steal/beg/prostitute to get food have never truly understood what it was like to starve and have no empathy.

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You are right, people who judge don't know what it was like to starve. People have a lot - excess food, excess land, excess stuff that they haven't left anything for others anymore. That I believe is unethical.