Is it justifiable to arrest someone for stealing food to feed their child?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is it justifiable to arrest someone for stealing food to feed their child?". Your opponent's style: Advocate Prakash Jha

is it justifiable because stealing is never okay

Wrong framing. A starving child isn't a moral philosophy problem, it's survival. When your kid's hungry and the system fails, stealing food stops being theft and becomes parenting. The real question is: should parents watch their children starve to keep their hands clean?

Why would you even have a kid if you can't afford simple and basic needs?

That's cruel logic. People aren't required to predict poverty before having kids—job loss, medical crisis, divorce happen. Even the responsible become desperate. So when they do, why should the child starve while stores throw food away?

How are you being logical if you can't even think about what the stores loses because of their irresponsiblity?

The store loses a loaf of bread. The child loses their life. You're balancing a grocer's profit margin against a kid's survival and pretending that's equivalent. It isn't.

By the law, it is never right to steal.

Laws exist to serve people, not the other way around. When law says a child must starve so a corporation keeps its margins, the law is broken, not the parent stealing food. Which matters more to you, really?

Staying true and honest in life. It/s your child and responsibility, dont involve other people just because you cant do something about it

So your child starves because you won't "involve" the grocer? That's not honesty, that's letting a kid suffer to feel morally superior. Responsibility means feeding your child—by any means necessary.

Stealing was never the best option, right?

Wrong. When your child is hungry and you have no money, stealing food IS the best option. It works. It saves a life. What's your alternative—let them starve to keep your conscience clean?