Stealing, even petty theft, has an impact on someone else. It is not merely your own character which is forever tarnished, but you will have affected the welfare of another. If you take drugs or abuse alcohol, you are not just putting limits on your own life, but denying others the good they may have received from your living a whole life. There are far greater dangers than these. Drugs and alcohol induce violence and irrational behaviour.
Theft can end in murder.
Yet any transgression of law makes it easier to commit another, and so the slow decline begins until one becomes useless and harmful to your own community. It is a terrible waste when young lives are destroyed by wilfully negative behaviour. More than this, it is painful to see a young person who is on their way up and whose life will strengthen their entire community, and then, when you look again, they are gone, in prison, in a sub-culture of thuggery, or dead. Indeed, too many of our young lions are simply dying. Today, World AIDS Day is being celebrated across the globe.