theft

Question 1

natural moral law

Answer 1

• violates ordered society, worship god & thou shall not steal
• theft leads to disorder & cardinal virtue of justice would condemn any act of stealing
• ‘when in some imminent danger & no other possible remedy… lawful for man to succour his own need by means of another’s property’ means its permissible if there’s no other alternative & imminent risk to individual
• example: in first term of uni & told you need a specialist textbook thats £90 but don’t have any money. for aquinas it wouldn’t be lawful to steal as you won’t die if you fail & proportionalist wouldn’t allow it as it is selfish to others

Question 2

situation ethics

Answer 2

• always asks if it is RIGHT in that PARTICULAR scenario
• example: wants to buy new/useful thesaurus but means to get it may be to steal
• fletcher never made a conclusion on this as possibilities endless & stresses importance of end result producing most love for most people
• love insists love should be justice distributed so for an action to be just the end result must not take love from others
• agapeic love is ‘other person regarding’ so if only consider love for oneself it has negative consequences & can’t be permitted
• in regards to textbook stealing, wouldn’t be permissible as robbing love from others