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How do they know who has done the theft ?

edw519 17y ago
Doesn't matter, that's the point. Would you be willing to risk everything important to you, not just your job, but your family, friends, home, and community, on the chance that someone may have seen you take a $5 item?
- sethg 17y ago
  I wouldn't, but I can't speak for everyone else. Sex outside of marriage is much more frowned-upon in the Hasidic community than petty theft, and yet there are Hasidim who have been caught soliciting prostitutes.
  - yan 17y ago
    That statement says absolutely nothing about the Hasidic community. As with any community, there will be those that commit acts considered indecent or tailor to their own urges above culture. That statement holds true if you insert absolutely any group of people in place of "the Hasidic community," no matter how traditional or strict.
    - sethg 17y ago
      Agreed. My point is that a store owner cannot assume that a Hasidic employee, even one who is constantly in the presence of other Hasidim, can automatically be trusted not to steal.
      - agrinshtein 17y ago
        Agreed. People are still human even though that they may try to follow a principled life. Think about yourself. You have certain principles which in moments of weakness are violated. I, in principle, go to sleep early. Here I am posting at 10:17PM (South African time) on Hacker News. Principle violated. People are only human.
  - marcusbooster 17y ago
    People get the wrong idea because they see the beards and hats and think "oh they must be really religious". You have a cultural group with individuals acting in different ways across a wide spectrum, often conflicting at different points in time -- just like everyone else.
- htrbtrb 17y ago
  It does help if you not only know most of your workers personally - but your father knows their father and so on for 200 generations! There are a few software companies like that in Utah - everybody in the dept goes to the same church on sunday, not my cup of tea but they seem happy.

Doesn't matter, that's the point. Would you be willing to risk everything important to you, not just your job, but your family, friends, home, and community, on the chance that someone may have seen you take a $5 item?

sethg 17y ago
I wouldn't, but I can't speak for everyone else. Sex outside of marriage is much more frowned-upon in the Hasidic community than petty theft, and yet there are Hasidim who have been caught soliciting prostitutes.
- yan 17y ago
  That statement says absolutely nothing about the Hasidic community. As with any community, there will be those that commit acts considered indecent or tailor to their own urges above culture. That statement holds true if you insert absolutely any group of people in place of "the Hasidic community," no matter how traditional or strict.
  - sethg 17y ago
    Agreed. My point is that a store owner cannot assume that a Hasidic employee, even one who is constantly in the presence of other Hasidim, can automatically be trusted not to steal.
    - agrinshtein 17y ago
      Agreed. People are still human even though that they may try to follow a principled life. Think about yourself. You have certain principles which in moments of weakness are violated. I, in principle, go to sleep early. Here I am posting at 10:17PM (South African time) on Hacker News. Principle violated. People are only human.
- marcusbooster 17y ago
  People get the wrong idea because they see the beards and hats and think "oh they must be really religious". You have a cultural group with individuals acting in different ways across a wide spectrum, often conflicting at different points in time -- just like everyone else.
htrbtrb 17y ago
It does help if you not only know most of your workers personally - but your father knows their father and so on for 200 generations! There are a few software companies like that in Utah - everybody in the dept goes to the same church on sunday, not my cup of tea but they seem happy.