said by FifthE1ement:A few years before the oldest children went off to work times were at there worst, and just once her oldest brother stole a loaf of bread from a store a short distance from the tenements in which they lived.
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Did the police office fail in his duties? Should he have taken the loaf of bread away from the starving family? Sometimes you have to make a moral decision rather than a monetary one based on the circumstances which you are presented.
Please tell me you did not just compare the theft of bread to the theft of cable television.