The Greek Robin Hood

[scotty77]

Enjoy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8700/index.html

[bobAlike]

Very much an anti-hero. Always feel strange with stories that glamorise criminality, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

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Very much an anti-hero. Always feel strange with stories that glamorise criminality, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

The first two categories usually also qualify for the last one.

[leethefish]

About 25 years ago someone held up the bank where my mum worked putting a shotgun in her face .......
I don't think she has ever got over it

So when I read something like

Parking outside a branch of the National Bank, he forced his way inside carrying an AK-47 rifle. He ordered staff to open the ATM, and snatched 150,000 euros. Then he took 100,000 euros from the cash boxes, and in moments he was gone.

I don't really care where the money went.

[bobAlike]

Very much an anti-hero. Always feel strange with stories that glamorise criminality, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

The first two categories usually also qualify for the last one.

But does it make it right?

[RED-DOG]

Very much an anti-hero. Always feel strange with stories that glamorise criminality, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

The first two categories usually also qualify for the last one.

But does it make it right?

There are not enough details to form an opinion. Each case would be different.

If for example, someone robbed Kim Jong-un and gave the proceeds to the Syrian refugees, I for one would be fine with it.

[Doobs]

Very much an anti-hero. Always feel strange with stories that glamorise criminality, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

The first two categories usually also qualify for the last one.

But does it make it right?

There are not enough details to form an opinion. Each case would be different.

If for example, someone robbed Kim Jong-un and gave the proceeds to the Syrian refugees, I for one would be fine with it.

Sure there are enough details.  He is an armed robber, he gives some of his money away to keep people quiet/ease his conscience whatever.  Still an armed robber and still terrifies people.  The banks aren't Kim Jong Un, thieves or anything close. Easy targets though. 

[RED-DOG]

Very much an anti-hero. Always feel strange with stories that glamorise criminality, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

The first two categories usually also qualify for the last one.

But does it make it right?

There are not enough details to form an opinion. Each case would be different.

If for example, someone robbed Kim Jong-un and gave the proceeds to the Syrian refugees, I for one would be fine with it.

Sure there are enough details.  He is an armed robber, he gives some of his money away to keep people quiet/ease his conscience whatever.  Still an armed robber and still terrifies people.  The banks aren't Kim Jong Un, thieves or anything close. Easy targets though. 

The question was, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

Very broad imo.

[horseplayer]

About 25 years ago someone held up the bank where my mum worked putting a shotgun in her face .......
I don't think she has ever got over it

So when I read something like

Parking outside a branch of the National Bank, he forced his way inside carrying an AK-47 rifle. He ordered staff to open the ATM, and snatched 150,000 euros. Then he took 100,000 euros from the cash boxes, and in moments he was gone.

I don't really care where the money went.

Agreed

I was very lucky i worked in a bank when this happened, luckily for me i was doing some paperwork way out the back and only realised what had happened when the tosser was running away

The impact on one of the cashiers was massive went from confident and articulate to a quivering wreck and eventually could not do any work anymore.

[Doobs]

Very much an anti-hero. Always feel strange with stories that glamorise criminality, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

The first two categories usually also qualify for the last one.

But does it make it right?

There are not enough details to form an opinion. Each case would be different.

If for example, someone robbed Kim Jong-un and gave the proceeds to the Syrian refugees, I for one would be fine with it.

Sure there are enough details.  He is an armed robber, he gives some of his money away to keep people quiet/ease his conscience whatever.  Still an armed robber and still terrifies people.  The banks aren't Kim Jong Un, thieves or anything close. Easy targets though. 

The question was, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

Very broad imo.

The Gypsies often qualify as thieves.  Maybe we should compare them to some a North Korean despot?  Question isn't broad, you are labelling good people bad, and struggling with somebody who is a genuine armed robber. 

[RED-DOG]

Very much an anti-hero. Always feel strange with stories that glamorise criminality, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

The first two categories usually also qualify for the last one.

But does it make it right?

There are not enough details to form an opinion. Each case would be different.

If for example, someone robbed Kim Jong-un and gave the proceeds to the Syrian refugees, I for one would be fine with it.

Sure there are enough details.  He is an armed robber, he gives some of his money away to keep people quiet/ease his conscience whatever.  Still an armed robber and still terrifies people.  The banks aren't Kim Jong Un, thieves or anything close. Easy targets though. 

The question was, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

Very broad imo.

The Gypsies often qualify as thieves. Maybe we should compare them to some a North Korean despot?  Question isn't broad, you are labelling good people bad, and struggling with somebody who is a genuine armed robber. 

I wrote several replies and then deleted them because they all came across like I was sore about you using my ethnicity to score a point in a trivial debate, which is definitely not the case.

[bobAlike]

Very much an anti-hero. Always feel strange with stories that glamorise criminality, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

The first two categories usually also qualify for the last one.

But does it make it right?

There are not enough details to form an opinion. Each case would be different.

If for example, someone robbed Kim Jong-un and gave the proceeds to the Syrian refugees, I for one would be fine with it.

Sure there are enough details.  He is an armed robber, he gives some of his money away to keep people quiet/ease his conscience whatever.  Still an armed robber and still terrifies people.  The banks aren't Kim Jong Un, thieves or anything close. Easy targets though. 

The question was, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

Very broad imo.

I should have just asked - is it ever ok to steal?

Personally I think not.

[RED-DOG]

Very much an anti-hero. Always feel strange with stories that glamorise criminality, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

The first two categories usually also qualify for the last one.

But does it make it right?

There are not enough details to form an opinion. Each case would be different.

If for example, someone robbed Kim Jong-un and gave the proceeds to the Syrian refugees, I for one would be fine with it.

Sure there are enough details.  He is an armed robber, he gives some of his money away to keep people quiet/ease his conscience whatever.  Still an armed robber and still terrifies people.  The banks aren't Kim Jong Un, thieves or anything close. Easy targets though. 

The question was, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

Very broad imo.

I should have just asked - is it ever ok to steal?

Personally I think not.

Not even if it's a crust of bread when you're starving to death in a Japanese prisoner of war camp?

[Mohican]

Very much an anti-hero. Always feel strange with stories that glamorise criminality, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

The first two categories usually also qualify for the last one.

But does it make it right?

There are not enough details to form an opinion. Each case would be different.

If for example, someone robbed Kim Jong-un and gave the proceeds to the Syrian refugees, I for one would be fine with it.

Sure there are enough details.  He is an armed robber, he gives some of his money away to keep people quiet/ease his conscience whatever.  Still an armed robber and still terrifies people.  The banks aren't Kim Jong Un, thieves or anything close. Easy targets though.  

The question was, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

Very broad imo.

I should have just asked - is it ever ok to steal?

Personally I think not.

Not even if it's a crust of bread when you're starving to death in a Japanese prisoner of war camp?

Even if it's from a fellow prisoner??
Read the book- King Rat by James Clavell or watch the film. Deals with this sort of thing in many ways.

[RED-DOG]

Very much an anti-hero. Always feel strange with stories that glamorise criminality, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

The first two categories usually also qualify for the last one.

But does it make it right?

There are not enough details to form an opinion. Each case would be different.

If for example, someone robbed Kim Jong-un and gave the proceeds to the Syrian refugees, I for one would be fine with it.

Sure there are enough details.  He is an armed robber, he gives some of his money away to keep people quiet/ease his conscience whatever.  Still an armed robber and still terrifies people.  The banks aren't Kim Jong Un, thieves or anything close. Easy targets though. 

The question was, is it ok to steal from the rich/banks/other crims?

Very broad imo.

I should have just asked - is it ever ok to steal?

Personally I think not.

Not even if it's a crust of bread when you're starving to death in a Japanese prisoner of war camp?

Even if it's from a fellow prisoner??

It's an interesting point.

I do know that prisoners in Auschwitz were doomed to starvation if they lost their soup-bowl. If it did happen, they would steal one from a fellow prisoner without compunction.