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Richard's moral dilemma is that he is against stealing because he has always believed it to be wrong, and even when he was going hungry and hadn't had food in days, he wouldn't steal. But at this point in the book he's itching to get out of the South and get to the North because he's afraid for his own life. He knows that he can't continue to live the way he's living, because if he does, then he could get himself killed. He's making some money bringing liquor to prostitutes, but he could be making more stealing and this could speed his flight plan up. I think the question we're supposed to blog about is a really difficult one. I'm holding two contradictory ideas in my head. I believe that stealing is wrong, and I agree with how Wright felt about selling those tickets. He thought that it was not morally right. But at the same time desperation makes people do crazy things, I've never been hungry like he has, or gone through racial persecution in the same way he had, so I'm not sure what I would. Like now when I haven't eaten all morning i'm pretty much dying, so if I was in his situation I would probably have stolen already. And I think that would have been okay. The white people during this time in the South weren't ever going to give blacks a handout if they asked for it, there wasn't really anyway that Wright could have gotten the money in the same amount of time that he needed it. Basically it was either, he get the money and leave or he be killed. And I think when it boils down to it, that Wright is justified for stealing. He didn't do it just for fun or being rebellious or greedy, but he did it because he had to. Him stealing wasn't going to hinder the white man like the black man was already hindered. They could easily make more money and replace what was lost in a short amount of time.