Is+it+ever+right+to+lie,+cheat+or+steal?++Explain.

eun young: I think it's right to steal if one's in a real life threatning situation. For example, if I had had no food for a week and was about to die of malnutrition, I would steal food and think it's right. If a mother stole money to cure her baby, I know that it's the right thing to do. Concerning these situations, stealing is right for some extreme circumstances that that involves life or death.

"The most common illustration of this dilemma comes from the life of Corrie ten Boom in Nazi Germany. Essentially the story is this: Corrie ten Boom is hiding Jews in her home to protect them from the Nazis. Nazi soldiers come to her home and ask her if she knows where any Jews are hiding. What is she to do? Should she tell the truth and allow the Nazis to capture the Jews she was trying to protect? Or, should she lie and deny that she knows anything about them?
 * Is there ever a time when lying is the right thing to do?**

In an instance such as this, where lying may be the only possible way to prevent a horrible evil, perhaps lying would be an acceptable thing to do. Such an instance would be somewhat similar to the lies of the Hebrew midwives and Rahab. In an evil world, and in a desperate situation, it may be the right thing to do to commit a lesser evil, lying, in order to prevent a much greater evil. However, it must be noted that such instances are extremely rare. It is highly likely that the vast majority of people in human history have never faced a situation in which lying was the right thing to do."

from: http://www.gotquestions.org/right-to-lie.html -Eun Jie Lee-