Bank robber planned crime and punishment
"James Richard Verone woke up June 9 with a sense of anticipation.He took a shower.
Ironed his shirt.
Hailed a cab.
Then robbed a bank.
He wasn’t especially nervous. If anything, Verone said he was excited to finally execute his plan to gain access to free medical care." See article.
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My mother told me that in the depression men would steal, who otherwise would never steal, in order to have a place to sleep and food to eat.
From Dickens a few decades earlier:
"`Are there no prisons?' asked Scrooge.
`Plenty of prisons,' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
`And the Union workhouses?' demanded Scrooge. `Are they still in operation?'
`They are. Still,' returned the gentleman, `I wish I could say they were not.'
`The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?' said Scrooge. . .
. . . .`I wish to be left alone,' said Scrooge. `Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned -- they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there.'"
A few centuries earlier there was Jesus and others.
A few centuries earlier there was the Buddha and others.
A few centuries earlier there was the forward thinking Code of Hammurabi.
Today "there is nothing for it" as Samwise of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings would say.
