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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5710617" data-attributes="member: 32740">Even if you're about to die of starvation and you're hundreds of miles from a food bank?&nbsp; Suppose you're lost in the Alaskan wilderness about to die of starvation.&nbsp; You come upon a LOCKED cabin.&nbsp; Heck, there's even a sign saying &quot;Trespassers will be SHOT and then prosecuted.&quot;&nbsp; You have no LEGAL right to the food in that cabin.&nbsp; You break in, STEAL the food you need and survive to find civilization again.&nbsp;Tell me again how the existence of a food bank somewhere on the planet invalidates hunger as an excuse for thievery?&nbsp;This is like asking &quot;If my PC does x, what alignment is he?&quot;&nbsp; The beliefs of an individual, the crimes and circumstances of the crimes committed, the motivations of the vigilante, the access to &quot;justice&quot; by more socially acceptible means, and on and on - all these things affect the answer as to whether I (or anybody) would turn in a friend for an eggregious crime.&nbsp;I suppose I can conceive of circumstances in which I would exact my own lethal revenge and try to get away with it, but it would have to be a fairly rare and extreme set of curcumstances and my overwhelming, reflexive response would be, &quot;NO, I would not do such a thing.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 5710617, member: 32740"] Even if you're about to die of starvation and you're hundreds of miles from a food bank? Suppose you're lost in the Alaskan wilderness about to die of starvation. You come upon a LOCKED cabin. Heck, there's even a sign saying "Trespassers will be SHOT and then prosecuted." You have no LEGAL right to the food in that cabin. You break in, STEAL the food you need and survive to find civilization again. Tell me again how the existence of a food bank somewhere on the planet invalidates hunger as an excuse for thievery? This is like asking "If my PC does x, what alignment is he?" The beliefs of an individual, the crimes and circumstances of the crimes committed, the motivations of the vigilante, the access to "justice" by more socially acceptible means, and on and on - all these things affect the answer as to whether I (or anybody) would turn in a friend for an eggregious crime. I suppose I can conceive of circumstances in which I would exact my own lethal revenge and try to get away with it, but it would have to be a fairly rare and extreme set of curcumstances and my [I]overwhelming[/I], reflexive response would be, "NO, I would not do such a thing." [/QUOTE]

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