Do people who steal takeout food during the epidemic deserve sympathy?

At the weekend, I received some inquiries from friends from other places: Did you catch a college student stealing takeout food in Nanjing? Can you get in touch with this college student? We are willing to support him.

I was surprised at first, but then I was moved. Surprisingly, a city like Nanjing actually reduces students to the point of stealing takeout; What moved me was a group of enthusiastic friends around me. After seeing the news, the first thing that overflowed was sympathy and help.

But as a young man who has lived in Nanjing for 16 years, I instinctively suspect that "poor students are forced to steal takeout".

First of all, colleges and universities in Nanjing, especially this famous school in the news, have taken meticulous care of poor students and work-study programs at the beginning of freshmen's enrollment. Some colleges and universities in Nanjing also quietly give "extra meals" to students who eat a certain amount in the canteen every month but have low total consumption. It is almost impossible to come to Nanjing to go to college and then even afford to eat because the family is poor.

Last year, our bookstore made several fund-raisers for children in Daliangshan and Tibet, so we also contacted many friends who were doing public welfare in Nanjing. They told us that they are often contacted by enterprises, hoping to participate in local public welfare assistance in Nanjing. However, the local public welfare situation in Nanjing has basically crossed the stage of giving priority to material assistance and needs more spiritual guidance and companionship. In other words, if there are really college students who are so poor that they can't even afford to eat, then there must be various enterprises and organizations in Nanjing scrambling to help.

Secondly, from the common sense around us, as a graduate of a well-known university, there are at least 1000 ways to beg in Nanjing. Tutoring, housekeeping, summer jobs in restaurants, part-time advertising, etc., can all support themselves.

I found the video report from the TV station and watched it several times. In this video report, there are theft monitoring of college students who steal take-away food, and there are also household surveys by the police, which record the living environment of college students.

College students who steal takeout rent a community with a good environment in the main city. The house he rented in the community is small, but it is still a single room. Judging from the environment and facilities of the house, this is not the rent level that a college student can even afford to eat.

Another detail is that the sanitary condition of the rental house is worrying. There are piles of finished take-away boxes on the table, which are taken out by the residential property personnel one by one to make records, and one by one. This reminds me of a joke told by Degang Guo: Since ancient times, no beggars have asked for breakfast, because as long as they can get up and ask for breakfast, they won't want to eat it.

Finally, on the basis of these doubts, I found a friend from the Public Security Bureau and learned that this college student has a part-time job, a stable income and no difficulties in life. One of the reasons why he stole the takeaway was that his takeaway had been stolen before, so he wanted revenge.

When the Nanjing police detained the college student, they followed the provisions of Article 264 of the Criminal Law: those who have repeatedly stolen (regardless of the amount) (more than three times in two years) shall be investigated for criminal responsibility.

However, stealing takeout is different from stealing other property after all. Article 13 of the General Principles of Criminal Law stipulates that if the circumstances are obviously minor and the harm is not great, it is not considered a crime. From the perspective of personal growth, combined with the performance of this college student during his detention, I think Nanjing police can give this college student a chance to turn over a new leaf.

Nanjing is not such a cold city. It will never ignore a person who can't even afford to eat, let alone force a college graduate to steal. Nanjing should not be a city that only stresses morality, not laws and facts, and it will not be kidnapped by cheap sympathy.

This college student didn't steal takeout because he was poor, but he made many friends from other places mistakenly spill sympathy and love.

I just want to say that college students' self-care ability is too poor now. They are all a group of giant babies. They lack life exercise since childhood and can't do anything. They will only let the old people serve them. When they enter the university, they can't take care of themselves. This is the state of many college students at present. Call on parents to let their children learn to work and do housework from an early age, and don't raise a group of waste.

Secondly, many children in China now lack the ability to resist psychological pressure and have been held in their hands since childhood. They have never suffered any setbacks or blows. Once they enter the university, leave their families, live alone, and face a strange new environment, they can't bear some setbacks, and many people want to die.

Call on parents to pay attention to their children's ideological education and housework ability from an early age.