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I was thinking about criminals, and specifically criminals committing crimes for a comparative pittance of a gain (you know, like theft/robbery for $2000 or less). That triggered this thought for me:

I have earned too much thru honest hard work to risk losing it due to dishonest activity. This is why I will never (knowingly) commit a crime.

Everyone has to make their own decisions and it depends how you define crime. According to the authorities in charge at the times, Rosa Parks committed a crime. So did the French Resistance in the 1940s and the British citizens who rebelled in the 1770s & 1780s.

Panzer Possum wrote:Everyone has to make their own decisions and it depends how you define crime.

The definition of crime is an easy one, IMO. It's whether or not you are willing to suffer the consequences of getting arrested. That is the difficult decision.

Panzer Possum wrote:Everyone has to make their own decisions and it depends how you define crime. According to the authorities in charge at the times, Rosa Parks committed a crime. So did the French Resistance in the 1940s and the British citizens who rebelled in the 1770s & 1780s.

Laws should be based on a set of moral principals, not the government using laws to control the population. For me the Ten Commandments is a great starting place. As I look around, I'm appalled at how far we've strayed from those moral principals as I see a man jailed and fined for holding bible study in his home. There seem to be more and more examples like this one, where a person is following moral principals but still on the wrong side of the law.

I will not set out to break moral principals even though I admit I've made errors in my life. Whether or not I end up breaking laws and committing crimes against the State will be determined by just how unjust those laws become.

Panzer Possum wrote:Everyone has to make their own decisions and it depends how you define crime. According to the authorities in charge at the times, Rosa Parks committed a crime. So did the French Resistance in the 1940s and the British citizens who rebelled in the 1770s & 1780s.

You're getting technical, but yeah, I see your point. And there are some "crimes" worth committing under some circumstances... but for me they have to be such as to be worth risking life or freedom for. Certainly your average stop and rob crime doesn't qualify for me. Nor do the vast majority of white collar crimes. The original revolution of this country would have definitely qualified - but that was not a crime, at least as defined by the winners (the founders of the country) it was a right and just action to rid themselves of tyrannical government.