{妈妈}说,她不想让她其他人穿着旧货衣服穿着她的小女儿。妈妈告诉我们,我们必须去购物。那不是罪吗?我问妈妈。妈妈说,不完全是。上帝不介意您有充分的理由遵守规则。这有点像合理的凶杀案。这是合理的偷窃。
({Mom} said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin? I asked Mom. Not exactly, Mom said. God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.)
在珍妮特·沃尔斯(Jeannette Walls)的《玻璃城堡》(The Glass Castle)中,作者与母亲分享了一次相遇,揭示了家庭的非常规价值。珍妮特(Jeannette)的母亲表达了她对自己最小的女儿的反对,穿着旧金店的衣服,就像全家人一样。取而代之的是,她建议他们求助于入店行窃作为解决方案。这引起了珍妮特(Jeannette)的道德问题,他想知道这种行动的道德规范。 妈妈辩称在某些情况下可以接受规则可以接受,从而将其比作合理的杀人罪,从而捍卫了她的建议。她将窃取的行为描述为“合理的偷窃”,强调了一种优先于道德的心态。这次谈话突出了他们非常规生活方式中家庭,生存和道德规范模糊的复杂动态。