While recognizing a poor hungry persons necessity to steal food from a grocery store is in essence an act of desperation, this act should not be taking place in a civilized society.
A measure of society is how it treats its most vulnerable.
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Naturally, the US wanted nothing to do with sentiment like that.
At last, a government that recognizes the difference between justice and law.
While recognizing a poor hungry persons necessity to steal food from a grocery store is in essence an act of desperation, this act should not be taking place in a civilized society.
I'm also fond of Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights wherein he quotes a ruling from British law:
Naturally, the US wanted nothing to do with sentiment like that.
So true.