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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Its the old, is it wrong to steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving family question.
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Not really. If you had starving children and no other alternative, stealing food, though unlawful, wouldn't be evil. There are many choices one might make for self-preservation. Certainly in some cases it would be better to die than to perform certain acts to save your hide.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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