Years ago, I talked with an elderly man who said he had to resort to stealing food to feed his family. Stealing is bad and breaks 8th Commandment, but at the same time, would it have been right for his family to starve? He said he wasn't proud of himself and cried.
I talked with another man who survived Buchenwald Concentration Camp. The residents were subjected to such cruelty of human experimentation, would be killed to have a tattoo turned into a lamp shade, and of course, starvation. He said that he and others had a choice, starve, or eat another human being. He said he still remembers what human flesh tastes like. Was this bad? Of course, but his instinct to survive took him down that path.
These are two extreme cases, but I am not the one to judge another human being's desire to live. That I will leave to God. I told myself I would never do something wrong to ease a bad situation. It's easy to say until you're in that situation.
My husband and I are disabled because of an accident. He can no longer work and I hope to next year. The job I had was eliminated. We have family that would take us in if times got too bad, but if you didn't have support, if there wasn't an alternative to fall back on, what would you do to feed your family?
I would hope I would never steal, have to eat another person, or sell puppies by the side of the road. But when we see another person doing this, why not help point that person to where there is help and rescue not just the puppies, but also the person who needs saving. |