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Lisa wrote:

Hi, guys —

Would it be a sin to forge documents in order to save the life of another person?

I'm thinking particularly about when people forged documents in order to obtain rations, visas and other identity papers for Jews during the Holocaust.

Lisa
  { Would it be a sin to forge documents in order to save the life of another person? }

Mary Ann replied:

Hi, Lisa —

One does not have to obey an unjust law. A law which treats a group unjustly, depriving them of necessities, is unjust, and one is justified in circumventing it.

Mary Ann
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