Poverty linked to crime and immorality?

Question

What Are your views and why?

"If poverty is the root of immoral behaviour; should this behaviour still be condemned?"

Answer 1

If one don't have any moral values, what do you use as a barometer to judge yourself and others or the way you or they behave, it is not a shame to be poor, but is is a shame to be dirty

Answer 2

What rubbish.  My parents were very poor, they grew up in very poor parts of their towns, had menial jobs and were forced to leave school at 14 to go out to work to support their families, yet their morality and honesty was beyond question, as it is for most of their generation (those born between the 1st and 2nd World Wars).  No s*x before marriage was the norm in their day not an exception.  Immorality should be  condemned whether rich or poor (especially in view of STD's and HIV/AIDS)  and it only today's lax views on immorality that would even posit  such a question.

Answer 3

Sometimes

Answer 4

We have to first ask ourselves why the country is in poverty in the first place and address that problem! Poor leaders are just the start of poverty as they do nothing about it and it increases.

Answer 5

I am not poor. I have never been poor, by any standards. That is why I am not the immoral criminal the whiteys accuse me of being. It is quite logical.

Skyli, I hope you are not talking about me again!

Answer 6

The only crime is poverty, but not just material poverty but poverty in spirit. I think it was Germaine Greer who said that.

Answer 7

And lack of education