Theft

• Situation Ethics Theft Examples Against

  fletcher gives the example of the student stealing the thesaurus
• Situation Ethics Theft Examples For

  disarming a crazy man who has a gun
• Situation Ethics Theft Examples For

  starving man w the bread
• Situation Ethics Theft Examples

  stealing from the rich and giving to the poor is dubious, they'd have to be really desperately poor
• Situation Ethics Theft Examples against

  digital piracy :)
• Situation Ethics- six propositions

  stealing for selfish reasons can't really be permitted since love has no favourites and stealing also has to result in a just action- justice is love distributed
• Natural Moral Law- Primary Precepts

  theft goes against the precepts live peacefully in an ordered society and worship god
• Natural Moral Law- secondary precept

  Theft is wrong because if everybody stole from one another, society would break down which goes against the precept live peacefully in an ordered society
• Natural Moral Law- secondary precept

  Theft is wrong because it goes against the primary precept worship god as scripture commands you "do not steal"
• Natural Moral Law- Aquinas

  Stealing is acceptable if "the need be so manifest and urgent", endorses stealing to save a life with his starving man example where proportionate reason exists it's right to ignore the precept. but goes on to say its not "properly speaking theft or robbery"
• Natural Moral Law- proportionalsim

  agrees with aquinas, theft would be acceptable to prevent starvation if its from someone who has more than enough. value comes from preserving innocent life, disvalue from the injustice to the person stolen from and possible bad effects on society so there's more value than disvalue
• Natural Moral Law- doctrine of double effect

  dde cannot be used to justify theft since the bad effect is the means
• Natural Moral Law- examples for

  • disarming a criminal
  • stealing to save a life
  • surgery to save a life which takes an organ
• Natural Moral Law- examples against

  • any situation where you're taking something you dont need
  • any situation where you're taking from someone who can't afford it
• Virtue Ethics- Aristotle

  said theft is base in of itself, there is no mean allowing it to be virtuous
• Virtue Ethics- Justice

  says its about the system of law, rules and custom but also fairness and restoring the distribution of gain and loss
• Virtue Ethics- starving man

  could be argued that is right as it's distributional since its not for profit, its from someone who has more than enough
• Virtue Ethics- virtuous criminals

  a bank heist could be virtuous since they often involve courage and prudence but philippa foot argues an act can only virtuous if correctly done to bring a good outcome.
• Virtue Ethics

  stealing is bad habit forming behaviour, which is doubly bad both for the moral agent and for the society since the more people who habitually steal the more society breaks down.
• Virtue Ethics example for

  the mona lisa was stolen and returned to italy in 1911, which shows a case where the redistribution of gain and loss is exemplified
• Virtue Ethics example for

  disarming a criminal with a weapon