Hi Bartosz,

By what leap of reason do you conclude that stealing is ever righteous? Is this an example of that Marxist/Robin Hood ethos? Giving to the poor does not justify stealing from the rich. Plain and simple, Robin Hood was a thief. It doesn't matter if everyone thinks him a hero, he stole what wasn't his. Moreover, stealing is wrong whether it is done with a gun or a legislature. Wrong is wrong, even when everyone does it, and right is right even if no one does it.

So again I ask, albeit in different terms, by what calculus do you conclude that two wrongs can ever make a right? If one man has more food than he and his family can eat, and his neighbor has none, then he has the ability to either feed or starve his hungry neighbor. If he feeds his neighbor he is generous. If he starves his neighbor he is wrong.

In either case, if the hungry neighbor goes out and hunts, gathers or grows food for himself and his family, then he is industrious. If, on the other hand, he steals what belongs to his neighbor, he is a thief and he is wrong. He has the choice to make. And whatever either of them chooses, two wrongs do not make a right.

Neither you nor I can dictate that our neighbors do what is right. What we can do is choose that we will do what is right.