When is it ok to steal...?

[Devonian]

(26 October 2014, 00:24)Sunna Wrote: if you keep cutting benefit cash for the poor the crime rate will rise ,with 20.000 less cops on the streets [more cuts] nobody wins.

don't get me wrong , most unemployed are honest and hardworking given the chance but the ones who were unemployed before the 09 crash who were never made redundant should have their benefits cut to the bone.

one thing for sure if folk don't have cash for the basics then many will get it one way or the other,

I think Sunna has a very valid point here in that as people struggle to make ends meet, then it is more likely that 'some' people will give consideration to taking from others.

But I think that before TSHTF, most people will struggle to carry out such acts.

I think that stealing/thefts are more likely to happen in the form of stealing from shops, committing fraud and possibly through street muggings, rather than through house burglaries, as the risk of getting caught here is likely to be greater - going into the unknown and all that.......

But again the numbers that would be involved are going to be very small, as the risk of getting caught for most people will stop them.

But also after the extravagance of the late 90's and 2000's, perhaps this is just a readjustment of society??