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Old 03-12-2010, 05:18 PM   #271
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
What do you mean? certainly they feel it's right for them or they would not do it.
If someone is starving, need they feel that it's right to take the lesser of two evils and steal food? Sure, criminals have made a choice to commit their crime (almost always), but they need not feel that it is "right" in any moral sense. Some crimes don't have a moral dimension from the criminal's point of view at all, others are intentional wrong-doing. Still others are not thought about until afterwards - that's why the law distinguishes between some pre-meditated acts and those in the heat of the moment.
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