Be sure to answer the prompt of our dramaturgy display in the lobby. The answers from each night will be put in this section, updated daily! Some hand-picked highlights are bolded.
Be sure to answer the prompt of our dramaturgy display in the lobby. The answers from each night will be put in this section, updated daily! Some hand-picked highlights are bolded.
"If I steal from Target I think it's fine"
to which, and we do not encourage you to do this, someone wrote on top of: "No it is not!"
"maybe"
"When they are evil duh <3"
"Yes, revenge is a dish best served cold and what's more cold than a body of someone who wronged you."
"YES"
"NO I AM BUDDHIST. Crime is not justified unless in response to a crime on oneself's personal liberty. Especially freedom of economic, social, and political well-being."
"Yes, literally all the time. Most U.S. presidents are far worse people than anyone else. JFK def deserved it."
"No is never an answer. Absolute is never an option."
"yes"
"If you see it with one eye and not the other and if you are deaf"
"Yes"
"A crime may and can be justified if the necessity of it outweighs the potential harm (i.e. a single mother takes baby products from a large chain store such as Target or Walmart without paying) done to those the crime is against. Additionally, if a crime is about something that truly impacts no one outside of those "committing" it, such as anti-gay laws prohibiting public affection between two people of the same gender, I personally feel as if it is out duty as global citizens to break these laws or overturn them for those who cannot do it themselves."
"Eye for an eye is honestly the voice that whispers in my head, but I feel sick at the end of the day. On a personal level, it's what you're willing to live with. On a world level, not really but also yes.
"Yes only the ones committed by me!"
"Yes."
"Only if you commit the crime of committing a crime, is that a crime?
"A crime is justifiable when the law it breaks is unjust. If a person has no other option it is unjust to punish them for surviving"
"Yes. Sometimes."
"Circumstances are everything. Who, what, where, when, and why. I think with valid 'why' it can be excused"
"Yes, for LOVE"
"A moral crime is different than a legal crime. Legal crimes are typically inventions by the bourgeois to grind their heels into the working class."
"Yes. Absolutely! 100%"
"Definitely"
"Yes. Free Luigi"
"Yes. Especially if they're beautiful."
"I would do anything to protect someone I love, so yes"
"yes, there is always a gray area in black & white"
"no yes"
in this response, the word "no" was scribbled with "yes" written beneath it
"HOW MUCH $$$"
"yes, if the victim is a bad person!"
"YES... just depends on the crime."
"Yes if it protects kids"
"Yes. By reasonable doubt + good lawyer"
"Can MURDER ever be justified?"
"Maybe?"
"Yes. Laws ≠ morality."
"'crime' is a widely agreed upon social construct"
"YES INDEED"
"Yes if it's for the good?"
"If the crime solves what the law fail to protect"
"He who saves his country commits no crime"
"Gypsy Rose Blanchard. (yes)"
"A matter of perspective. What crime cannot be rationalized into justification?"
"Violence is only ever justified in the most extreme cases. Self defense, to protect oneself or one's fellow from harm. The removal of a genocider from power is the only exception, but assassination never works in the USA."
"Yes, kill (or eat!) the rich"
"Yes, the state has a monopoly on violence, not morality!"
"Yes (But also depends on the motive)"
"Yes, only for the falsely accused but the real criminals are the ones running this country right now. The first time ever in USA history that a felon is our President."
"hiding a body under an endangered plant."
"Yes, sometimes the system really, really fails us"
"some might argue that this show could stand to contain ~11.11% more content and ~25% more presidential-related content. just sayin!"
"America is desensitized to violence. We welcome it in sports, media, schools, and homes. In our society, a lot of it is overlooked. With the mass amounts that occur, not everything can be covered. Others look at America and ask what is happening? To our society if it has a truly justified cause and nobility, then yes."
"Yes. look up Marianne Bachmeier"
some resources from your resident dramaturg: an article: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1378009700/view?sectionId=nla.obj-1632952514&partId=nla.obj-1378056127, or a podcast episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pW7Ja9pXz5qezco7fFHKj
"Yes. Robin Hood"
"Clytemnestra"
"Yes I love crime"
"People will always find a way justify their actions, regardless of what the law says"
"Yes. The systems in this country are made to keep the rich richer and the poor/unhoused suffer."
"That depends ;)"
"YES! There are MORAL & LEGAL crimes! <3"
"Antigone burying her brother"