If this doesn’t make you think of a morally gray area, I don’t know what will.
This story was published recently about a man who attempted to rob a convenience store for 40 dollars to pay for his insulin. The clerk instead gave him 40 dollars out of his own pocket, the man thanked him and shook his hand before fleeing.
The fact that the man asked for such a specific dollar amount instead of the typical “Gimme all the money!” with accompanying curse words, leads me to believe that he was telling the truth. Along with the fact that he briefly stayed to thank the clerk before escaping.
Attempting to rob a place is wrong, hence the law getting involved, but does the fact that he literally did it because he didn’t want to die make it okay? I’m not entirely solid in my knowledge of welfare and health care assistance in the state of Arkansas, but I’m thinking that the fact that you can get health care assistance for things like this needs to be WAY more publicized than it is. If nothing more than that people in rough patches will know that there is a place to go for help.
If there isn’t a system to help people out like this down there, then there damn well should be.
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