ANSWERS: 23
  • What? You shot someone because you are poor?
  • yes. You robbed someone to buy drugs?
  • Did you shoot because your poor and wanted to kill for fun or did you steal to support your family. Still both illegal and not viable excuses. one word WELFARE
  • no more than being"rich" is an excuse...except the rich hire the best lawyers.can you say O.J.?
  • No. Not in a welfare state. I can understand poor people in poor countries who steal food for the day.
  • No way. Everyone would get away with crime.
  • It can be. Think of a man with 5 or 6 children, homeless and with no food for his children. Would he not be justified in stealing food to feed with children?
    • Hardcore Conservative
      No. How about asking for help?
  • I'm sure there's some example of it being justifiable. But I can't think of one.
  • Again... Every action has a consequence. If you can deal with them... everythig is fair game.
  • absolutely NOT. There are rules/laws for everyone, not just the rich/poor/ugly/pretty/female/male/etc
  • i think if your poor and you steal food to feed your starving family, thats justified. people can put as many bells and whistles on it as they want, but our justice system is extremely flawed and is very prejudice towards the financially-impaired, and creates a vicious circle where the poor get poorer and can never get ahead.
  • Yes.Statements like,"Oh, I didn't know it would happen,I'm sorry".I'd say ignorance is no excuse.
  • It may be an ethical excuse (stealing food for example to feed your hungry family, sometimes you have to weigh two wrongs up against each other) but it should not be a legal excuse.
  • No, being rich is an excuse for breaking the law since rich people always can get away with it.
  • If my family were dying of starvation, I'd steal food. I wouldn't however go and shoot or rape people.
  • No, then again, being rich doesn't stop people from being thieves, either.
  • The two don't mix. The law is designed to keep us in order. The credit system is designed to keep people busy where there is order. If you break the law, you are fined, so you are kept busy while obeying the law, and they choose a the fine based on how much they want you to to obey. Supposedly because it will take a long time to find that 200 $/£ etc. bill, you wont want to do it again, and therefore obey the law. Okay maybe they do mix ... If your poor you want credit, and you break the law to get credit, your fined so you have to find more credit ... that could go on for awhile ... they must have some law dealing with that to, or perhaps that just sending the offender to jail.
  • Are you talking about a Jean Valjean type deal?
  • Being poor is an excuse for a lot of things these days. You know what they say about excuses....
  • Depends on the circumstances. For example, stealing a loaf of bread to feed your children, because you were disinherited. Would butter some parsnips with the judge. But a crime is still a crime and there would be some compensation which needs paid.
  • Humans use "excuses" as a way to rationalize. In theory -- no. In the practical world I have never never been hungry, never seen a child starve, never been without a place to live. In short choices are easy when one has them, not so much so when there are none.
  • not at all

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