dadvaljean:

I was thinking about what Valjean’s perspective on his crime was and if he would do the same thing again (ie he and Cosette are starving and he’s tempted to steal food) and what he considers moral

and there’s a discussion to be had there but I realized that it doesn’t really matter what he believes. if cosette was starving, he would steal the food. even if he fully believed that would damn him to hell. he’d do it in an instant for his daughter.