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I'm interested, what test do they perform to check if a person in question was hungry?/s Still, it's a bad precedence imho, so according to such logic, a homele
by kbart 10y ago
I'm interested, what test do they perform to check if a person in question was hungry?/s Still, it's a bad precedence imho, so according to such logic, a homeless person could also invade my home and sleep in my bed, because he can't afford his own.
- Intermernet 10y ago>according to such logic, a homeless person could also invade my home and sleep in my bed, because he can't afford his own. Not quite, a homeless person could invade an empty home and sleep in that bed. This is done all the time, and is somewhat covered by squatter's rights. It's currently assumed that greater than 15% of the world's population are squatters. [1] Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land–or a building, usually residential–that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. Author Robert Neuwirth suggested in 2004 that there were one billion squatters globally. He forecasts there will be two billion by 2030 and three billion by 2050. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting
- kbart 10y agoWhat you've described is more akin to gathering discarded food in the back of supermarkets and restaurants, not taking it (stealing) from the rightful owner.
- Intermernet 10y agoThe original article is about about someone stealing food from a supermarket. Yes, the supermarket is the rightful owner, but they aren't going to actually consume the food.
- thaumasiotes 10y agoYou're not going to consume your bed, either.
- hartpuff 10y agoI'm not seeing the same logic you are. If someone is hungry (or pretending to be), why would they want to break into your home and sleep in your bed, rather than steal food?
- eplanit 10y agoHis logical construction is solid: If it's okay to steal food when hungry, then it's okay to steal shelter when homeless (right?). The construction demonstrates how such logic, when generalized even a little, reveals its absurdity.
- hartpuff 10y agoWell it's about as "logical" as saying it's okay to kill people while in the army, so it must be okay to kill people in any other situation too.