He was asking for 15% of his own money, and not for a donation. To save a sick family member in an emergency.
If you come to me asking for your own money in such a situation, and I say - hard luck, I can't give them to you because I only have 5 ferraris now instead of 100 ferraris, and I kick you out humiliated... yeah I'd expect you to, at some point, snap!
It's easy to argue from an ivory tower, in a just society. But harder to imagine what it would be like when there's no justice anymore and there is no rule of law protecting your rights.
I think it's a moral question, and everyone will see this question from their viewpoint. Which is fair.
If I was holding on to your property which belongs to you and refusing to give it to you, then I think you'd be entirely within your rights to use an AK-47 for persuasion.
If someone is keeping me hostage so that a third party does something (say, releasing others from jail) - I might be a hostage, but the incident still isn't robbery.
You have to steal stuff for it to be robbery.
So yes, I'll make the same claim. There is no point in saying that I was a hostage in a robbery if I was in a hostage situation for different reasons.
If you come to me asking for your own money in such a situation, and I say - hard luck, I can't give them to you because I only have 5 ferraris now instead of 100 ferraris, and I kick you out humiliated... yeah I'd expect you to, at some point, snap!
It's easy to argue from an ivory tower, in a just society. But harder to imagine what it would be like when there's no justice anymore and there is no rule of law protecting your rights.
I think it's a moral question, and everyone will see this question from their viewpoint. Which is fair.